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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 September 21–27, 2026, at 18.78%.
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- Market
- Luxury Real Estate Advisory
- Location
- New York
- Observed period
- September 21–27, 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 — not the operators who sell the properties.”
Quick answer
facebook.com follows at 16.10%, and Zillow records 10.49%.
Key reading
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
Across the 7-run window, the Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York opening-control panel is distributed — the top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, yet the rank-1 actor, youtube.com, records only 18.78% of cumulative AI opening share over the period. The 9 sources behind youtube.com range from 16.10% down to 3.66%, and the spread between rank 1 and rank 10 is 15.12 percentage points. The non-obvious read: two social platforms — youtube.com and facebook.com — occupy the top two positions on a surface that covers luxury real estate advisory queries, while the highest-ranked focused source, Zillow, sits 8.29 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI opening share on this market. The bottom half of the panel includes SERHANT., instagram.com, hauseit.com, and List Sothebys International Realty, all recording between 3.66% and 5.12% — a long tail where no single actor separates itself.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | #1 | 18.78% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #2 | 16.10% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Zillow | #3 | 10.49% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| StreetEasy | #4 | 8.78% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| realtrends.com | #5 | 6.10% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| manhattanmiami.com | #6 | 5.85% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| SERHANT. | #7 | 5.12% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #8 | 4.88% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| hauseit.com | #9 | 4.15% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| List Sothebys International Realty | #10 | 3.66% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 18.78% of cumulative openings across the 7-run window. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. As a general-purpose platform, youtube.com occupies the opening-control position that a specialist operator might be expected to hold on a luxury real estate surface.
facebook.com records 16.10% AI opening share on this market and sits 2.68 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI opening share on this market. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. A second social platform at rank 2 reinforces the platform-heavy shape of the top of this panel.
Zillow records 10.49% AI opening share on this market, the highest share among focused sources on this panel. It sits 8.29 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI opening share on this market and opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
StreetEasy records 8.78% AI opening share on this market and sits 10.00 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it as the second focused source on the panel by cumulative opening volume over the period.
realtrends.com records 6.10% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.68 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, anchoring the transition between the mid-tier and the lower tier of this panel.
manhattanmiami.com records 5.85% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.93 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs — one of three actors on the panel that did not appear in every run.
SERHANT. records 5.12% AI opening share on this market and sits 13.66 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it in the lower tier of the panel by cumulative opening volume.
instagram.com records 4.88% AI opening share on this market and sits 13.90 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs — the lowest presence frequency on the governed panel.
hauseit.com records 4.15% AI opening share on this market and sits 14.63 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs, occupying the ninth position on the period-wide ranking.
List Sothebys International Realty
List Sothebys International Realty records 3.66% AI opening share on this market and sits 15.12 percentage points behind youtube.com. Despite being a specialist operator on this market, it holds the lowest cumulative opening share on the governed panel. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
The panel is platform-heavy at the top and specialist-heavy
The panel is platform-heavy at the top and specialist-heavy at the bottom. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, but the rank-1 share is moderate — no single actor concentrates the opening-control rail. The 9 sources behind youtube.com sit between 2.68 and 15.12 percentage points behind it, producing a gradual slope rather than a sharp cliff. 7 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 3 opened AI answers in fewer runs. The surface mixes social platforms, focused sources, and a specialist operator — but the specialist operator, List Sothebys International Realty, sits at the bottom of the governed panel.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
youtube.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York — a surface where the queries are about advisory services, agent selection, and property transactions. The structural observation: AI reaches for user-generated and aggregator platforms before it reaches for the operators who transact in this market. The only specialist operator on the governed panel, List Sothebys International Realty, sits at rank 10.
Market implication
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
This observation signals that the AI opening-control surface for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York is distributed across platforms and focused sources rather than concentrated around specialist operators. Across the 7-run window, no actor has locked in a commanding position on this observed surface. For any operator monitoring AI visibility on this market, the reading is structural: the opening slot — the source AI reaches for first — is occupied by general-purpose platforms, not by the actors who operate in the luxury real estate advisory space.
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- Observed:
- September 21–27, 2026
- Published:
- September 29, 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-21-27-2026 Scope: Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: September 21–27, 2026 (2026-09-21/2026-09-27) Published: September 29, 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-21-27-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-september-21-27-2026/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 September 21–27, 2026, at 18.78%. Key facts: • youtube.com: 19% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • facebook.com: 16% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • Zillow: 10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (September 21–27, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. youtube.com — 18.78% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. facebook.com — 16.10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. Zillow — 10.49% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. StreetEasy — 8.78% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. realtrends.com — 6.10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #5 6. manhattanmiami.com — 5.85% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #6 7. SERHANT. — 5.12% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #7 8. instagram.com — 4.88% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #8 9. hauseit.com — 4.15% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #9 10. List Sothebys International Realty — 3.66% 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 21–27, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening share over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. Per-actor metric values represent the sum of each actor's opening volume across all comparable runs, divided by one single period-wide denominator. 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 21–27, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1790528778654_79oxy3. 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 29, 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-21-27-2026 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: 0358e7c942d8c1db
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FAQ
- What does AI opening share measure?
- AI opening share captures which source is cited at the opening of AI Overview answers — the first source AI reaches for when constructing a response. It is not the same as general citation share (which counts all citations across the full AI answer) and it is not an organic search ranking.
- What does this card prove and what does it not prove?
- This card proves which actors accumulated the highest opening share on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the window September 21–27, 2026. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. It does not measure general citation share or organic visibility.
- Why might the opening-control panel look different on a future observation?
- AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates. The sources AI reaches for first can shift between observations, so a panel observed across one window may differ from a panel observed across a different window.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · September 21–27, 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 21–27, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening share over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. Per-actor metric values represent the sum of each actor's opening volume across all comparable runs, divided by one single period-wide denominator. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.
The complete methodology — scope, panels, run conditions and corrections — is set out on the Method page.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs, September 21–27, 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 2026-09-29 · Governed capture ID · pr_1790528778654_79oxy3
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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 21–27, 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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