Company: HOUS
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-210060
Chunk: 115

Company: Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-22
Form: 425
Chunk 115
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 its and its Subsidiaries’ business, properties, contracts, records and personnel as may be reasonably requested, from time to time, by or on behalf of Parent solely to the extent in furtherance of
the consummation of the Merger and the other Transactions. Parent and its Representatives shall conduct any such activities in such a manner as not to interfere unreasonably with the business or operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries or
otherwise cause any unreasonable interference with the prompt and timely discharge by the employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries of their normal duties. Notwithstanding the foregoing:

(i) no Party shall be required to, or to cause any of its Subsidiaries to, grant access or furnish information, as applicable,
to the other Party or any of its Representatives to the extent that such information is subject to an attorney/client privilege or the attorney work product doctrine or that such access or the furnishing of such information, as applicable, is
prohibited by applicable Law or an existing contract or agreement (, , that the Company or Parent, as applicable, shall inform the other Party as to the general nature of what is being withheld and the Company and Parent
shall reasonably

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cooperate with Parent to make appropriate substitute arrangements to permit reasonable disclosure that does not suffer from any of the foregoing impediments, including through the use of
reasonable best efforts to (A) obtain the required consent or waiver of any third party required to provide such information and (B) implement appropriate and mutually agreeable measures to permit the disclosure of such information in a
manner to remove the basis for the objection, including by arrangement of appropriate clean room procedures (including as set forth in the Clean Team Agreement), redaction or entry into a customary joint defense agreement with respect to any
information to be so provided, if the Parties determine that doing so would reasonably permit the disclosure of such information without violating applicable Law or jeopardizing such privilege);

(ii) No Party shall have access to personnel records of the other Party or any of its Subsidiaries relating to individual
performance or evaluation records, medical histories or other information that, in the other Party’s good faith opinion, the disclosure of which could subject the other Party or any of its Subsidiaries to risk of liability;

(iii) Parent shall not be permitted to conduct any sampling or analysis of any environmental media or building materials at any
facility of the Company or its Subsidiaries without the prior written consent of the Company (gr