Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
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Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
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prospects and business and management strategies for the management, expansion and growth of the combined company’s operations; certain restrictions during the pendency of the proposed transaction that may impact Anywhere’s or
Compass’s ability to pursue certain business opportunities or strategic transactions or otherwise operate their respective businesses; and other risk factors detailed from time to time in Anywhere’s and Compass’s reports filed with
the SEC, including Anywhere’s and Compass’s annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and other documents filed with the SEC, including documents that will be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction.

These risks, as well as other risks associated with the proposed transaction, will be more fully discussed in the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus that will
be included in the Registration Statement that will be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction. While the list of factors presented here is, and the list of factors to be presented in the Registration Statement will be,
considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. You
should not place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements as they are not guarantees of future performance or outcomes; actual performance and outcomes, including, without limitation, Anywhere’s or Compass’s actual
results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and the development of new markets or market segments in which Anywhere or Compass operate, may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained
in this Current Report on Form 8-K. Neither Anywhere nor Compass assumes any obligation to publicly provide revisions or updates to any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future developments or otherwise, should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws. Neither future distribution of this Current Report on Form 8-K nor the
continued availability of this Current Report on Form 8-K in archive form on Anywhere’s or Compass’s website should be deemed to constitute an update or
re-affirmation of these statements as of any future date.

Important Information and Where to Find It

In connection with the proposed transaction between the Company and Compass, the Company and Compass will file relevant materials with the SEC, including a
registration statement on Form S-4 filed by Compass (the “Registration Statement”) that will include a joint proxy statement of Compass