Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001628280-25-054793
Chunk: 360

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-02
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 360
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 and procedures in place for all escrow and trust accounts which comply with America Land Title Association Escrow Accounting Standards and which provide that (a) escrow funds and operating accounts are separately maintained, (b) escrow trust accounts are prepared with trial balances, listing all open escrow balances, (c) escrow accounts are regularly reconciled (receipts and disbursements daily and three-way reconciliation monthly), (d) monthly bank account reconciliations are conducted by someone other than those with signing authority, (e) escrow accounts are properly identified as escrow or trust accounts including on all bank statements, bank agreements, disbursement checks and deposit tickets, (f) escrow accounts are maintained in federally insured financial institutions unless directed by the beneficial owner, (g) the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with applicable Law related to good funds, (h) a written wire transfer procedure is in place and (i) a written wire fraud response procedure is in place.

4.25 Franchise Matters .

(a) The lists of Franchisees identified and reported in each Franchisor’s 2025 FDD are true, correct, and complete lists in all material respects, and, taken as a whole, identify all Franchisees and Franchise Agreements in the United States as of the close of the 2024 fiscal year for the Company and its Subsidiaries. Schedule 4.25(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list, as of June 1, 2025, of Franchise Agreements, aggregated for all Franchise Systems, that are due to expire and may be renewed, by year, from 2025 through 2035, along with the aggregate royalties expected to be paid to the Company and its Subsidiaries each such year.

(b) Except as would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Franchise Agreement referenced in Section 4.25(a) above, and each Franchise Agreement subsequently executed in 2025, is a valid and binding agreement of the parties thereto, is in full force and effect, in which the parties thereto are in material compliance with the terms of each such agreement, and is enforceable against the parties thereto in accordance with its terms, subject as to enforceability to Creditors’ Rights, (ii) each Franchise Agreement complies in all material respects with applicable Laws and orders of Governmental Entities having jurisdiction with respect to the offer