— Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview —
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 September 28 – October 4, 2026, at 20.09%.
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- Market
- Luxury Real Estate Advisory
- Location
- New York
- Observed period
- Sep 28 – Oct 4, 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
“New York luxury real estate AI answers open on platforms, not on the operators who sell the properties.”
Quick answer
The top-10 panel is drawn from 104 observed queries on Google desktop.
Key reading
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
The AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York shows a distributed competitive structure across this 7-run window — the top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined. youtube.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide ranking at 20.09%, but the 9 sources behind youtube.com range from 10.71% down to 2.90%. facebook.com and Zillow both record 10.71% AI opening share on this market, each sitting 9.38 percentage points behind youtube.com. The surface is wide open on the AI-answer layer: no name has converted visibility into concentrated authority on this observed AI Overview opening-control rail over the period.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | #1 | 20.09% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #2 | 10.71% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Zillow | #3 | 10.71% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #4 | 9.82% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| List Sothebys International Realty | #5 | 8.93% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| StreetEasy | #6 | 8.48% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| realtrends.com | #7 | 6.47% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| SERHANT. | #8 | 4.02% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| linkedin.com | #9 | 3.13% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| brickunderground.com | #10 | 2.90% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
youtube.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide AI opening-control ranking at 20.09%, accumulating the highest opening volume across the 7-run window. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. As a social platform rather than a specialist operator, its position at the top of this surface is structurally notable.
facebook.com records 10.71% AI opening share on this market and sits 9.38 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. Another social platform occupying the upper tier of the opening-control rail.
Zillow records 10.71% AI opening share on this market, matching facebook.com on the metric while holding a separate governed rank. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. Zillow is the highest-ranked focused source on this panel, sitting between two social platforms above and the rest of the field below.
instagram.com records 9.82% AI opening share on this market and sits 10.27 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. A social platform positioned just below the metric-tied pair at ranks two and three.
List Sothebys International Realty
List Sothebys International Realty records 8.93% AI opening share on this market, the highest share among specialist operators on this panel. It sits 11.16 percentage points behind youtube.com and opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
StreetEasy records 8.48% AI opening share on this market and sits 11.61 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it among the focused sources that appear on this surface across the period.
realtrends.com records 6.47% AI opening share on this market and sits 13.62 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
SERHANT. records 4.02% AI opening share on this market and sits 16.07 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs, one of the three actors on the panel that did not appear in every run.
linkedin.com records 3.13% AI opening share on this market and sits 16.96 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs, the lowest presence frequency among the four social platforms on this panel.
brickunderground.com records 2.90% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed panel. It sits 17.19 percentage points behind youtube.com and opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
The panel's shape is platform-heavy at the top and specialis
The panel's shape is platform-heavy at the top and specialist-thin throughout. Four social platforms — youtube.com, facebook.com, instagram.com, and linkedin.com — occupy four of the top five governed ranks. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, signaling a distributed surface rather than a concentrated one. The spread between the rank-1 and rank-10 actor is 17.19 percentage points, and the 9 sources behind youtube.com sit between 9.38 and 17.19 percentage points behind it. 7 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 3 opened AI answers in fewer runs.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
youtube.com's rank-1 position on this AI Overview opening-control rail means that when Google's AI answers a luxury real estate query in New York, the source it reaches for first is more often a video platform than any specialist operator or listing service. The only specialist operator in the top five is List Sothebys International Realty, at rank five. The opening-control surface, as observed across this 7-run window, is shaped by general-purpose platforms rather than by the focused sources that serve this market directly.
Market implication
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
The AI-answer layer on this market is wide open — no name has converted visibility into concentrated authority on this observed AI Overview opening-control surface over the period. The distributed structure, combined with the platform-heavy composition of the upper ranks, suggests that AI Overviews for luxury real estate queries in New York draw from broad, general-purpose sources rather than channeling openings toward any single specialist. Monitoring this surface over subsequent windows would clarify whether the opening-control rail consolidates around fewer sources or remains dispersed.
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- Observed:
- Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
- Published:
- October 6, 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-28-to-october-4-2026 Scope: Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 (2026-09-28/2026-10-04) Published: October 6, 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-28-to-october-4-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-ai-overview-control-september-28-to-october-4-2026/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 September 28 – October 4, 2026, at 20.09%. Key facts: • youtube.com: 20% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • facebook.com: 11% 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 (Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. youtube.com — 20.09% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. facebook.com — 10.71% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. Zillow — 10.71% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. instagram.com — 9.82% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. List Sothebys International Realty — 8.93% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #5 6. StreetEasy — 8.48% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #6 7. realtrends.com — 6.47% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #7 8. SERHANT. — 4.02% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #8 9. linkedin.com — 3.13% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #9 10. brickunderground.com — 2.90% 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 September 28 – October 4, 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, October 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1791133637041_bmwcbo. 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 (October 6, 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-28-to-october-4-2026 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: a8b42d45b7369527
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FAQ
- What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
- It measures how often a given actor is the source 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 that youtube.com is the long-term leader on this surface?
- No. This card observes cumulative AI opening volume across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the window September 28 – October 4, 2026. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend.
- Why do facebook.com and Zillow show the same percentage but different ranks?
- Both record 10.71% AI opening share on this market. They are tied on the metric, but the governed ranking applies a deterministic tie-break that assigns them separate positions. Neither leads the other on the displayed value.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI Overview · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 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, October 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 28 – October 4, 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. 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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