— Ranking Top 5 · AI citation —
Who does AI cite most for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York?
youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on the Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York panel at 35.40%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs from October 19–25, 2026.
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- Market
- Luxury Real Estate Advisory
- Location
- New York
- Observed period
- October 19–25, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 104 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- United States
- Reading
- Ranking Top 5 · AI citation
“On New York luxury real estate, AI Overview citations flow to platforms before any specialist operator.”
Quick answer
The top 5 actors on the AI Overview citation rail are all general-purpose platforms or non-specialist domains.
Key reading
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
youtube.com accumulated 35.40% of all AI Overview citations observed across the 7-run window on this market, placing it well ahead of the rest of the panel. The 4 sources behind youtube.com range from 9.99% down to 5.38%. Three of the five panel positions belong to social platforms — youtube.com, instagram.com, and facebook.com — while only one specialist operator, List Sothebys International Realty, appears at 8.00%. The spread between the rank-1 and rank-5 positions is 30.03 percentage points, and the top 2 actors together hold more than the remaining 3 combined. All 5 actors on the panel were cited in all 7 comparable runs.
Core metric
Citation share — top 5 · Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
Observed metric
Citation share — top 5
| Actor | Rank | AIO citation share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | #1 | 35.40% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| Zillow | #2 | 9.99% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| List Sothebys International Realty | #3 | 8.00% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #4 | 6.79% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #5 | 5.38% AI citation share | cited in 7/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on this market at 35.40% across the 7-run window. As a general-purpose platform, it accumulated more AI Overview citations than the next four actors combined — a position that underscores how heavily AI Overviews lean on video and user-generated content when sourcing answers about luxury real estate in New York. It was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs.
Zillow records 9.99% AI citation share on this market and sits 25.42 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI citation share on this market. Cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, Zillow occupies a position on the AI Overview citation panel for this market as the second-ranked source — present on every run but accumulating a fraction of the citation volume that flows to the rank-1 actor.
List Sothebys International Realty
List Sothebys International Realty is the only specialist operator on this top-5 panel, recording 8.00% AI citation share on this market. It sits 27.40 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI citation share on this market and was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs — a consistent citation signal, even if the cumulative volume remains modest relative to the platforms above it.
instagram.com records 6.79% AI citation share on this market and sits 28.62 percentage points behind youtube.com. As a social platform, it represents the second platform-type source in the lower half of the panel. It was cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs.
facebook.com records 5.38% AI citation share on this market, the fifth-ranked position on this panel. It sits 30.03 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI citation share on this market. Cited in 7 of 7 comparable runs, it rounds out a panel where three of five positions belong to social platforms.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
The panel is heavily top-loaded
The panel is heavily top-loaded: youtube.com alone holds more citation volume than the other four actors combined, and the top 2 actors together hold more than the remaining 3 combined. Three of the five positions belong to social platforms, giving the AI Overview citation rail on this market a distinctly platform-heavy composition. Only one specialist operator — List Sothebys International Realty — appears in the governed top 5. The 4 sources behind youtube.com sit between 25.42 and 30.03 percentage points behind it, forming a compressed trailing cluster where the gap separating rank 2 from rank 5 is far narrower than the gap separating rank 1 from rank 2.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
youtube.com's rank-1 position on the AI Overview citation rail for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York is structurally notable: the AI citation surface for a specialist advisory market is led not by a brokerage or listing service but by a general-purpose video platform. The presence of instagram.com and facebook.com alongside it means that three of the five most-cited sources are social platforms rather than specialist operators — a composition that signals how AI Overviews source luxury real estate answers in New York.
Market implication
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026
The AI Overview citation rail on this market is concentrated around platforms rather than specialist operators. With youtube.com accumulating 35.40% of citations and only one specialist operator appearing in the top 5, the surface suggests that AI Overviews on luxury real estate queries in New York draw heavily on user-generated and platform-hosted content when assembling source citations. Monitoring whether specialist operators gain citation share on this surface over future windows would clarify whether the current platform-heavy composition is a durable feature of the AI citation layer on this market.
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- Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York
- Surface:
- AI citation · Google · Desktop
- Observed:
- October 19–25, 2026
- Published:
- October 31, 2026
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Who does AI cite most for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026 Scope: Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 5 Observed: October 19–25, 2026 (2026-10-19/2026-10-25) Published: October 31, 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-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms youtube.com holds the strongest AI citation share on the Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York panel at 35.40%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs from October 19–25, 2026. Key facts: • youtube.com: 35% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs • Zillow: 10% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs • List Sothebys International Realty: 8% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs Published table — Citation share — top 5 (October 19–25, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · Citation share 1. youtube.com — 35.40% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #1 2. Zillow — 9.99% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #2 3. List Sothebys International Realty — 8.00% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #3 4. instagram.com — 6.79% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #4 5. facebook.com — 5.38% AI citation share · cited in 7/7 runs — #5 Reading basis: This card examines sources cited in Google's AI Overviews for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York, observed on Google desktop from the United States during October 19–25, 2026. It draws on 7 of 7 comparable daily observations within a governed market panel of 104 observed queries, applying the relevant source-selection rules. Limitations and non-claims: — Observes the observed AI citation 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 citation · Google · Desktop · October 19–25, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1792948090466_sfvs9x. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory. Source footnote: Sourced from a published AAI Kernel Market Intelligence Board (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 31, 2026), Who does AI cite most for Luxury Real Estate Advisory, New York?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-real-estate-new-york-most-cited-by-ai-october-19-25-2026 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: 7538f9fd2bc05bf3
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FAQ
- What does AI citation share on this market measure?
- It measures how often an actor's domain appears as a cited source inside AI Overview answers across the market's observed query panel. It does not measure who opens AI answers, organic search ranking, or business-market position.
- Does this card prove that youtube.com is the most important source for luxury real estate in New York?
- No. The card observes AI Overview citation frequency on Google desktop across 7 comparable runs from October 19–25, 2026. It does not measure business relevance, transaction volume, or authority outside the AI Overview citation rail. AI Overview content can vary by query, model, and date.
- Why does only one specialist operator appear in the top 5?
- The governed top-5 panel is ranked by cumulative AI citation volume over the period. On this market and window, platforms accumulated more AI Overview citations than all but one specialist operator — List Sothebys International Realty, which records 8.00% AI citation share.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Real Estate Advisory · New York · AI citation · October 19–25, 2026 · what this card does not claim
- Observes the observed AI citation 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 examines sources cited in Google's AI Overviews for Luxury Real Estate Advisory New York, observed on Google desktop from the United States during October 19–25, 2026. It draws on 7 of 7 comparable daily observations within a governed market panel of 104 observed queries, applying the relevant source-selection rules.
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, October 19–25, 2026. AI Overview citation evidence available on 7 of 7 runs. No claim about AI opening control or organic visibility. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend.
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 2026-10-31 · Governed capture ID · pr_1792948090466_sfvs9x
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