Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 123

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 123
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idiaries, as applicable, to take reasonable best efforts to (i) cause each Continuing Employee to be immediately eligible to participate, without any waiting time, in any and all Parent Plans to the extent
coverage under such Parent Plan replaces coverage under the comparable Company Plan in which such Continuing Employee participated immediately prior to

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the Effective Time, (ii) waive any limitation on health and welfare coverage of any Continuing Employee and his or her eligible dependents due to
pre-existing conditions and/or waiting periods, active employment requirements and requirements to show evidence of good health under the applicable health and welfare Parent Plan to the extent such Continuing
Employee and his or her eligible dependents are covered under a Company Plan immediately prior to the Effective Time, and such conditions, periods or requirements were satisfied or waived under such Company Plan and (iii) give each Continuing
Employee credit for the plan year in which the Closing Date occurs towards applicable deductibles, coinsurance and annual out-of-pocket limits for expenses incurred
prior to the Closing Date for which payment has been made under the applicable group health Company Plan for purposes of satisfying the corresponding deductibles, coinsurance and annual
out-of-pocket limits applicable to such Continuing Employee and his or her eligible dependents under the corresponding group health Parent Plan for the applicable plan
year as if such amounts had been paid in accordance with such Parent Plan.

(d) It is acknowledged and agreed that the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will constitute a “change of control” (or “change in control” or transaction of similar import) for purposes of all Company Plans, policies, programs or agreements (including, but not limited
to severance plans and award agreements under the Company Stock Plan that include the term “change in control” or “change of control,” as applicable).

(e) Upon a severance qualifying termination of a Continuing Employee’s employment with Parent or any of its Affiliates (including,
following the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries) on or after the Closing Date, Parent shall (or shall cause its applicable Affiliate to) pay such Continuing Employee a bonus for the year in which the Closing occurs,
subject to such Continuing Employee’s execution and non-revocation of a customary general release of claims satisfactory to Parent, equal to the product of (i) the Continuing Employee’s
full-year bonus entitlements under any of the Company’s annual bonus plans in which the Continuing Employee participates at the time of such qualifying termination, based on actual performance determined at a level no