Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 101

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 101
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 notice obligation set forth in this
shall be reduced to three (3) Business Days; , , that any such new written notice shall in no event shorten the original five (5) Business Day notice period.

(f) During the period commencing with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and continuing until the earlier of the Effective Time and
termination of this Agreement in accordance with , the Company shall not (and it shall cause its Subsidiaries not to) terminate, amend, modify or waive any provision of any confidentiality, “standstill” or similar
agreement to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is a party; , that, notwithstanding any other provision in this , prior to, but not after, the time the Company Stockholder Approval is obtained,
if, in response to an unsolicited request from a third party to waive any “standstill” or similar provision, the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel that the failure to take such
action would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties owed by the Company Board to the stockholders of the Company under applicable Law, the Company may waive any such “standstill” or similar provision solely to the extent necessary to
permit a third party to make a Company Competing Proposal, on a confidential basis, to the Company Board and communicate such waiver to the applicable third party; , , that the Company shall advise Parent at least two
(2) Business Days prior to taking such action.

(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
, any action, or failure to take action, that is taken by a director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by (x) Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC or Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
or (y) any other Representative of the Company or its Subsidiaries acting at the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ direction or on its behalf, in each case, in violation of this , shall be
deemed to be a breach of this by the Company.

(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
, no provision of this shall prohibit any action or effort required to be taken by the Parties under hereto.

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6.5 .

(a) From and after the date of this Agreement, Parent and its officers and directors will, will cause Parent’s Subsidiaries and their
respective officers and directors to, and will use their reasonable best efforts to