HOW WE SORT

This page explains the main parameters WoSuch uses to order properties in search results, on the map and in recommendations, and which placements are paid. It is addressed to users and to business providers alike.

1. STANDARD ORDER

Unless you choose a different sort order, we rank results by two features of the listing itself: how complete it is and how recent it is.

1.1 Completeness of the listing

Each listing receives up to 80 points:

• photos: 10 or more photos 25 points, 5 or more 20 points, at least onephoto 10 points;
• a floor plan: 15 points;
• an energy certificate or an energy rating: 15 points;
• a stated price — not "price on request": 15 points; for new-build projects,the price of the least expensive available unit;
• a description of at least 300 characters: 10 points.

1.2 Recency

Points for the age of the listing are added: up to 14 days 20 points, up to 30 days 15 points, up to 90 days 10 points, older 5 points. For agents' listings the date of publication counts; for new-build projects, the date they were added to WoSuch.

1.3 Tiers and rotation

By their total points we assign listings to three tiers: 75 points and more, 50 points and more, and below. The tiers appear in this order. Within a tier the order is reshuffled several times a day — every six hours — so that listings of equal standing have the same chance of the top positions.

1.4 What plays no role

The standard order does not take into account who offers the listing, whether or how much commission a provider charges, how often a listing was viewed or saved, or any information about you. The order is not personalised; all users see the same order for the same search at the same time. The only paid means of influencing a listing's position is the top placement (section 3).

1.5 Which listings appear

Only published listings that are not archived appear. New-build projects appear as long as at least one unit is reported as available.

2. ORDER OF YOUR CHOICE

If you choose to sort by price, area or recency, we order the results by that feature alone. There are no paid placements in that case. Listings with price on request come last when sorting by price.

3. TOP PLACEMENT (PAID)

Providers can book a top placement for a listing against payment, in one of three packages: Premium, Plus or Basis.

• Matching listings only. A listing with a top placement appears only if itmatches your search criteria. It is not inserted into searches it does notmatch.
• One package, one page. In the standard order each package has seven fixedpositions on a page of its own, at positions 1, 2, 3, 7, 12, 18 and 23 of thatpage, with 24 listings per page: Premium on the first, Plus on the second,Basis on the third page. A listing stays within the positions of its package;it moves neither into the positions of a higher nor into those of a lowerpackage. Positions left free are filled with listings in the standard order.
• Never further down than without booking. A listing is placed at a position ofits package only if that position is ahead of its place in the standardorder. Otherwise it appears at its place in the standard order and is notmarked.
• Rotation. Within a package every listing moves on by one position every hour;the last one moves to the first position. In addition, the order shifts by oneposition from day to day, so that at the same time of day a listing takes adifferent position each day. This way every listing takes every position ofits package in turn, at every time of day. All users see the same order at thesame time.
• Limited number. For each package, at most seven top placements are granted perregion (usually a city) and section (New builds, Resale, Rent) — as many asthe package has positions. In a search within that region every matchinglisting with a top placement therefore stands within the positions of itspackage. If a search covers several regions, the listings of a package fromthese regions take turns in the order described; listings without a freeposition appear at their place in the standard order.
• Each listing appears only once.
• Listings that stand further ahead because of a top placement are marked"Ad". The ⓘ symbol next to the label shows who advertises and why the listingis shown.

On the map, the marker of such a listing is highlighted. In the list next to the map, listings with a top placement come first within their group — "In map view" or "More listings" — in the order Premium, Plus, Basis; they are not moved into the map view from outside.

The AI assistant shows its results in the standard order, including top placements.

4. SIMILAR LISTINGS

On a listing's page we show up to eight similar listings.

• For an agent's listing: same type of transaction (buy or rent), same propertytype, a price between half and double, and an area between half and double.First come listings in the immediate vicinity, then listings within two andwithin five kilometres with a similar price and a similar number of rooms,then other listings of the same provider, then all others, each by distance.For listings from two million euros we show similar listings from two millioneuros, by distance.
• For a new-build project: other new-build projects with available units, bydistance.

Positions 3 and 6 may be taken by listings with a top placement, but only if they meet the same similarity criteria. Which listing takes these positions changes by the same rule as in section 3. They are marked "Ad".

5. FEATURED PROPERTIES (ADVERTISING)

The "Featured properties" row consists of advertising and is marked as such. It appears on the homepage of the website and on the start screen of the AI assistant in the app. Its overview page shows all ads of the row; in the app they can also be shown on the map. Every ad carries the label "Ad"; the ⓘ symbol shows who advertises and why the ad appears.

• Advertising areas. Ads are granted for one advertising area and one section(New builds, Resale, Rent). An advertising area is a city with itssurroundings or, for smaller cities, a larger region; every place belongs toexactly one advertising area. The advertising area of an ad follows from thelocation of the advertised property. The advertising areas are shown on thepage "Advertising on WoSuch".
• Who sees the ads. If you have selected a city, we show the ads of theadvertising area that city belongs to, in the selected section; for severalcities, the ads of the advertising areas concerned. Without a selected city,the ads of the whole country take turns. If there is no ad in the advertisingarea, the row is not shown; it is not filled with other listings.
• Limited number. At most twelve ads are granted per advertising area andsection.
• Rotation. The order of the ads changes by the same rule as for the topplacement (section 3): by one position every hour, and by one more positionfrom day to day. All users see the same order at the same time.

The other rows of the homepage and the providers' profile pages contain no paid placements; the standard order applies there.

Search alerts and notifications contain no advertising and no paid placements.

6. NOTES FOR BUSINESS PROVIDERS

You can influence a listing's position in the standard order by completing it: photos, floor plan, energy certificate, price and description (section 1.1). Recency follows from the date of publication.

Against payment, only the top placement (section 3) and advertising in the "Featured properties" row (section 5) are available. WoSuch offers no other arrangements that influence the order.

7. QUESTIONS

Please send questions about the order of results to kontakt@wosuch.com.