Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 151

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 151
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 Termination Fee or the Regulatory Termination Fee on more than one occasion.
The Parties agree that the agreements contained in this are an integral part of the Transactions, and that, without these agreements, the Parties would not enter into this Agreement. The Parties also agree that
the Termination Fees are liquidated damages and not penalties, and the payment of the Termination Fees in the

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circumstances specified herein are supported by due and sufficient consideration. If the Company or Parent fails to promptly pay the amount due by it pursuant to this
, the Company or Parent, as applicable, shall pay to Parent or the Company, respectively, all fees, costs and expenses of enforcement (including attorneys’ fees as well as expenses incurred in connection
with any action initiated seeking such payment), together with interest on the amount of the Company Termination Fee, the Parent Termination Fee or the Regulatory Termination Fee, as applicable, at the prime lending rate as published in the Wall Street Journal, in effect on the date such payment is required to be made. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Parties hereby acknowledge that, in the event that any Termination Fee becomes payable, and is paid by,
the Company to Parent or Parent to the Company, as applicable, such Termination Fee shall be the receiving Party’s sole and exclusive remedy pursuant to this Agreement. The Parties further acknowledge that no Termination Fee shall constitute a
penalty but is in consideration for a disposition of the rights of the recipient under this Agreement and represents liquidated damages, in a reasonable amount that will compensate Parent or the Company, as applicable, in the circumstances in which
the Termination Fee is payable for the efforts and resources expended and opportunities foregone while negotiating this Agreement and in reliance on this Agreement and on the expectation of the consummation of the Merger, which amount would
otherwise be impossible to calculate with precision. The Parties further acknowledge and agree that the right to receive a Termination Fee shall not limit or otherwise affect any such Party’s right to specific performance set forth in
.

ARTICLE IX

GENERAL PROVISIONS

9.1
. All capitalized terms in the Company Disclosure Letter and the Parent Disclosure Letter shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein except as otherwise defined therein.

9.2 . Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, none of the representations, warranties, agreements and covenants
contained in this Agreement will survive the Closing; , , that those covenants and agreements contained herein that by their terms