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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York?
youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York market across the 7-run window from August 24–30, 2026, recording 15.30% of all AI Overview openings observed over the period.
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- Market
- Luxury Real Estate Advisory
- Location
- New York
- Observed period
- August 24–30, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 104 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- United States
- Reading
- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On New York luxury real estate, AI reaches for platforms first — and no single source controls the opening.”
Quick answer
facebook.com follows at 14.55%, just 0.75 percentage points behind.
Key reading
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
youtube.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide AI opening-control ranking at 15.30%, but the gap to facebook.com at 14.55% is narrow — 0.75 percentage points. realtrends.com sits third at 10.45%, and the 9 sources behind youtube.com range from 14.55% down to 3.36%. The panel mixes social platforms and niche domains, and none of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs. The AI Overview opening-control surface on this market remains structurally open: no actor has accumulated a share large enough to anchor the opening slot across the period.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | #1 | 15.30% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #2 | 14.55% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| realtrends.com | #3 | 10.45% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| StreetEasy | #4 | 8.21% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| hauseit.com | #5 | 7.84% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| manhattanmiami.com | #6 | 6.34% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| reddit.com | #7 | 5.97% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| hollywoodreporter.com | #8 | 4.48% AI opening share | opening in 4/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #9 | 4.10% AI opening share | opening in 4/7 runs |
| castle-avenue.com | #10 | 3.36% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in the period-wide ranking at 15.30%. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs. As a general-purpose platform, its rank-1 position on this opening-control rail means AI reached for video content first more often than for any other source across the window.
facebook.com records 14.55% AI opening share on this market, sitting 0.75 percentage points behind youtube.com. It also opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs. The gap between the two social platforms at the top of this rail is the narrowest on the panel.
realtrends.com records 10.45% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.85 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs. As a niche domain rather than a platform, it occupies the highest position among focused sources on this rail.
StreetEasy records 8.21% AI opening share on this market, sitting 7.09 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs. Its presence on this opening-control surface places it as the fourth-ranked actor by cumulative opening volume over the period.
hauseit.com records 7.84% AI opening share on this market and sits 7.46 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs. As a niche domain, it sits close to StreetEasy on cumulative opening volume, separated by less than a percentage point.
manhattanmiami.com records 6.34% AI opening share on this market, sitting 8.96 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs — a lower presence frequency than the actors ranked above it.
reddit.com records 5.97% AI opening share on this market and sits 9.33 percentage points behind youtube.com. As a user-generated discussion platform, it opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs. Its appearance on a luxury real estate opening-control rail is a structural signal about the source types AI draws from.
hollywoodreporter.com records 4.48% AI opening share on this market, sitting 10.82 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 4 of 7 comparable runs. Its presence on a luxury real estate surface — as a domain not typically associated with property — underscores the breadth of sources AI reaches for at the opening slot.
instagram.com records 4.10% AI opening share on this market and sits 11.19 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 4 of 7 comparable runs. As a social platform, it is the fourth platform-type actor on this panel.
castle-avenue.com records 3.36% AI opening share on this market, sitting 11.94 percentage points behind youtube.com. Despite holding the lowest share on the panel, it opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs — matching the presence frequency of the rank-1 actor.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
The panel is dispersed
The panel is dispersed. The top 2 actors together hold less than the remaining 8 combined. The spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is 11.94 percentage points, and the 9 sources behind youtube.com sit between 0.75 and 11.94 percentage points behind it. Four of the governed top-10 actors are platforms — youtube.com, facebook.com, reddit.com, and instagram.com — while the remaining positions belong to niche and focused domains. None of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs, which means the opening-control surface drew from a broad, shifting set of sources across the period.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
youtube.com's rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail is notable because the surface is a luxury real estate market — yet AI reached for a general-purpose video platform first, ahead of every focused real estate source. The presence of hollywoodreporter.com and reddit.com further signals that AI Overview openings on this market pull from source types well outside the property sector.
Market implication
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026
The AI Overview opening-control surface on Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York remains wide open across the 7-run window. No actor has accumulated a share large enough to anchor the primacy slot, and the panel's mix of platforms and niche domains means the opening rail is structurally unconsolidated. For any operator monitoring AI visibility on this market, the observation signals that the opening slot is contested territory — not locked down by any single source type.
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- Observed:
- August 24–30, 2026
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- September 1, 2026
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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026 Scope: Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: August 24–30, 2026 (2026-08-24/2026-08-30) Published: September 1, 2026 Method — How readings are scoped: https://theobservatory.io/method#standards Method — Run metadata: https://theobservatory.io/method/panel#run-metadata Method — Source protocol: https://theobservatory.io/method#source-protocol Method — Corrections and right of reply: https://theobservatory.io/method#corrections Public table: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York market across the 7-run window from August 24–30, 2026, recording 15.30% of all AI Overview openings observed over the period. Key facts: • youtube.com: 15% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs • facebook.com: 15% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs • realtrends.com: 10% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (August 24–30, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. youtube.com — 15.30% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #1 2. facebook.com — 14.55% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #2 3. realtrends.com — 10.45% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #3 4. StreetEasy — 8.21% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #4 5. hauseit.com — 7.84% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #5 6. manhattanmiami.com — 6.34% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #6 7. reddit.com — 5.97% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #7 8. hollywoodreporter.com — 4.48% AI opening share · opening in 4/7 runs — #8 9. instagram.com — 4.10% AI opening share · opening in 4/7 runs — #9 10. castle-avenue.com — 3.36% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #10 Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York in New York on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. Per-actor AI opening share is the sum of the actor's openings across all comparable runs divided by one single period-wide denominator. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs. Limitations and non-claims: — Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window. — A period aggregate (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share. — Scoped to Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · August 24–30, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1788109581385_p702w3. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory. Source footnote: Sourced from a published AAI MIB card. The Observatory publishes this card’s public findings; values are as observed on the search surface, not business-market claims. Attribution: Published by The Observatory · Based on an AAI Kernel capture · governed by The Observatory editorial system Cite: According to The Observatory (September 1, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026 This record is the published reading and its public table/slice as served on the card — not the complete underlying capture or provider dataset. Observed by The Observatory. Not an endorsement, recommendation, market-share claim or commercial ranking. Free reuse, including commercial republication, under The Observatory’s Terms. Retain attribution, source link, scope and date. Revision: fe7010ad72a8ff3b
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FAQ
- What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
- It measures how often a given source is cited at the very opening of an AI Overview answer — the first source AI reaches for when answering a query. This is distinct from general citation share, which counts all citations regardless of position within the answer.
- Does this card prove a longer-term trend or measure general citation share?
- No. This card observes AI opening-control share aggregated across 7 comparable scheduled runs in an observation period (August 24–30, 2026). This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. It does not measure general citation share or organic search visibility.
- Why might AI Overview opening behavior differ from one observation window to the next?
- AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates. The sources AI reaches for first can shift between observation windows, which is why each card is scoped to its specific window and no trend is inferred from a single period.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026 · what this card does not claim
- Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window.
- A period aggregate (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
- Scoped to Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.
Method & source
This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York in New York on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. Per-actor AI opening share is the sum of the actor's openings across all comparable runs divided by one single period-wide denominator. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs (August 24–30, 2026). AI Overview opening-control evidence available on 7 of 7 runs. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. No claim about general citation share or organic visibility.
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