Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 162

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 162
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 express third-party beneficiaries of, and may enforce this . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, nothing in this Agreement shall impact the rights of Parent, Merger Sub and
their respective Affiliates, or the obligations of the Financing Entities, under any debt commitment letter or any Definitive Financing Agreement relating to any Financing consisting of debt financing.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Party hereto has caused this Agreement to be signed by its respective officer thereunto duly authorized, all as of the date first written above.

| COMPASS, INC.             |     |                         |
| By:                       |     | /s/ Robert Reffkin      |
| Name:                     |     | Robert Reffkin          |
| Title:                    |     | Chief Executive Officer |
| VELOCITY MERGER SUB, INC. |     |                         |
| By:                       |     | /s/ Scott Wahlers       |
| Name:                     |     | Scott Wahlers           |
| Title:                    |     | President and Treasurer |

[ Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger]

| ANYWHERE REAL ESTATE INC. |     |                                       |
| By:                       |     | /s/ Ryan M. Schneider                 |
| Name:                     |     | Ryan M. Schneider                     |
| Title:                    |     | Chief Executive Officer and President |

[ Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger]

Exhibit 10.1 VOTING AND SUPPORT AGREEMENT This Voting and Support Agreement (this “ Agreement”), dated as of September 22, 2025, is entered into by and among Anywhere Real Estate Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company”), Compass, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Parent”) and each of the undersigned stockholders (each, the “ Stockholder” and together, the “ Stockholders”) of Parent. WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (as the same may be amended, supplemented or modified, the “ Merger Agreement”), dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, Parent, and Velocity Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Merger Sub”), Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company (the “ Merger”), with the Company as the surviving corporation; WHEREAS, as of the date of this Agreement, each Stockholder owns beneficially or of record, and has the sole power