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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York?
youtube.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York across the 7-run observation period of September 14–20, 2026, recording 16.30% AI opening share on this market.
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- Market
- Luxury Real Estate Advisory
- Location
- New York
- Observed period
- September 14–20, 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, the AI opening-control surface remains unsettled — no actor has locked the primacy slot across this 7-run window.”
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facebook.com follows at 14.10%, with Zillow at 11.45%.
Key reading
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
youtube.com accumulated the highest AI opening share on this market across the 7-run window at 16.30%, but the 9 sources behind youtube.com range from 14.10% down to 3.96% — a spread of 12.33 percentage points that leaves the surface contested rather than locked. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, which means the opening-control rail is not concentrated at the top. Two social platforms — youtube.com and facebook.com — occupy the first and second positions by cumulative opening volume, while the specialist and niche domains that follow sit within a narrow band of each other. The non-obvious read: on a market defined by advisory expertise, AI Overviews reach for general-purpose platforms first, not for the focused sources that populate the lower half of the panel.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | #1 | 16.30% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #2 | 14.10% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Zillow | #3 | 11.45% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| StreetEasy | #4 | 10.57% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| manhattanmiami.com | #5 | 6.83% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| hauseit.com | #6 | 6.39% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| List Sothebys International Realty | #7 | 5.95% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| realtrends.com | #8 | 5.51% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| SERHANT. | #9 | 4.19% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| brickunderground.com | #10 | 3.96% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 16.30%. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, and as a social platform rather than a specialist operator, its rank-1 position on this opening-control rail signals that AI reaches for video content first when answering luxury real estate queries in New York.
facebook.com records 14.10% AI opening share on this market and sits 2.20 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI opening share on this market. Another social platform occupying the second position by cumulative opening volume, facebook.com opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs across the window.
Zillow records 11.45% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.85 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. Among the focused sources on the panel, Zillow holds the highest cumulative opening volume over the period.
StreetEasy records 10.57% AI opening share on this market and sits 5.73 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it just behind Zillow in cumulative opening volume across the window.
manhattanmiami.com records 6.83% AI opening share on this market and sits 9.47 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, positioning it at the boundary between the mid-tier cluster and the lower half of the panel.
hauseit.com records 6.39% AI opening share on this market and sits 9.91 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, holding a narrow margin ahead of List Sothebys International Realty in cumulative opening volume.
List Sothebys International Realty
List Sothebys International Realty records 5.95% AI opening share on this market and sits 10.35 percentage points behind youtube.com. As a specialist operator on this market, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs — yet its cumulative opening volume places it in the lower portion of the panel.
realtrends.com records 5.51% AI opening share on this market and sits 10.79 percentage points behind youtube.com. It is the only actor on the panel that did not open AI answers in every comparable run, having opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
SERHANT. records 4.19% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.11 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it near the bottom of the panel by cumulative opening volume despite its full-window presence.
brickunderground.com records 3.96% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.33 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, occupying the final position on the governed top-10 panel with the lowest cumulative opening volume over the period.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
The opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New
The opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York is distributed, not concentrated. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is 12.33 percentage points — wide enough to separate the panel into tiers but not wide enough to grant any actor structural control. Two general-purpose social platforms sit at the top, followed by a cluster of focused sources and niche domains that populate the middle and lower ranks. 9 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 1 opened AI answers in fewer runs. The surface is shaped by breadth of participation rather than by a single dominant opening source.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
youtube.com — a general-purpose platform — holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail for a luxury real estate advisory market. The surface structure suggests that when AI Overviews answer New York luxury real estate queries, they reach for broad-audience platforms before specialist domains, distributing the opening slot across a mix of source types rather than concentrating it on any single focused source.
Market implication
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
The AI Overview opening-control surface for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York remains unsettled across this 7-run window. No actor has locked an authoritative position on AI openings over the period, and the fact that the top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined signals that the opening slot is contested from multiple directions. For any operator monitoring AI visibility on this market, the observation reframes the question: the battle is not who holds the opening slot, but whether any actor can accumulate enough opening volume to separate from the field.
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- Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York
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- Observed:
- September 14–20, 2026
- Published:
- September 22, 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-september-14-20-2026 Scope: Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: September 14–20, 2026 (2026-09-14/2026-09-20) Published: September 22, 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-september-14-20-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-september-14-20-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms youtube.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York across the 7-run observation period of September 14–20, 2026, recording 16.30% AI opening share on this market. Key facts: • youtube.com: 16% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • facebook.com: 14% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • Zillow: 11% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (September 14–20, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. youtube.com — 16.30% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. facebook.com — 14.10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. Zillow — 11.45% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. StreetEasy — 10.57% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. manhattanmiami.com — 6.83% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #5 6. hauseit.com — 6.39% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #6 7. List Sothebys International Realty — 5.95% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #7 8. realtrends.com — 5.51% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #8 9. SERHANT. — 4.19% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #9 10. brickunderground.com — 3.96% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 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 September 14–20, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window. 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, September 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · September 14–20, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1789923968643_l06sv8. 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 22, 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-september-14-20-2026 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: 7525e6b2001f820a
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FAQ
- What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
- It measures how often a given actor is cited at the very opening of an AI Overview answer across the market's observed query set. It captures the primacy slot — who AI reaches for first — not general citation frequency and not organic search ranking.
- Does this card prove a longer-term pattern or a business-market position?
- No. This is a period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the window September 14–20, 2026. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates, and future windows may produce different results.
- Why do two social platforms lead the opening-control rail on a luxury real estate market?
- The card observes which sources AI Overviews reach for first; it does not explain why. The observation records that youtube.com at 16.30% and facebook.com at 14.10% accumulated the highest opening volumes over the period. The card does not measure general citation share or organic visibility.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 14–20, 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, September 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 September 14–20, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs, September 14–20, 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.
A capture from AAI Kernel’s governed intelligence — published by The Observatory. One reading of many; the publication date is distinct from the observed window shown above.Published 2026-09-22 · Governed capture ID · pr_1789923968643_l06sv8
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The Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York room places this AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.
For the same observation window, September 14–20, 2026, Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York is also read in the AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 table, the Organic Ranking — Top 5 table and the Query Spotlight table; each keeps its own reading basis.
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