Venue of the VBO real estate Agent has Funda sued. Funda, which is partly in the hands of venue NVM, it would be his own homes to give priority to, and is thus guilty of unfair competition.
According to the VBO real estate Agent is the bet of the lawsuit to be on “equal and transparent access to the portal Funda.nl under reasonable conditions’. FEB suggests that, among other things, research from the NMa, and a report of research SEO Economic Research shows that the listings of brokers who are not a member of the NVM structurally lower in the search results are shown. This would, according to the VBO real estate Agent both sellers and buyers be affected, because the portal is primarily to serve the interests of the NVM-brokers.
In a press release on the subpoena of Funda by the VBO real estate Agent refers the venue to the research of the European Commission to the dominant position of Google. The search giant now seems concessions to want to do to the European supervisory authorities. According to the VBO real estate Agent has Funda despite recommendations of the regulator, the NMa, who claimed that Funda all parties should handle, yet no attempt is made to competing brokers higher up in the search results to pop up. FEB would, therefore, feel compelled to court.
The ESTATE late in a response to the NIS know that the VBO real estate Agent previously has agreed with the manner in which the offer of VBO members is shown. In addition, the huizenaanbodsite that it is only logical that homes of NVM-members receive priority in search results.