Real estate agencies in New York that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok the four questions a buyer asks when looking for real estate agencies in New York, three times each, in English, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 48 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 48
- Businesses named
- 16
- Named only once
- 2
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 6 of 14
- Named again on a rerun
- 88%
Edition September 2026. Download the data
Asked for real estate agencies in New York, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok most often named Corcoran (100% of answers), Douglas Elliman (98%) and Compass (98%). Across 48 answers they named 16 different businesses, 2 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in September 2026.
The ranking
Share is the fraction of the 48 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.
| # | Business | Share | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Grok | Questions | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CorcoranAlso written Corcoran Group, The Corcoran Group | 95%: 93 to 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 4 of 4 | 1.8 |
| 2 | Douglas EllimanAlso written Douglas Elliman Real Estate | 95%: 89 to 100% | 100% | 92% | 100% | 100% | 4 of 4 | 1.8 |
| 3 | CompassAlso written Compass New York, Compass Real Estate | 95%: 89 to 100% | 92% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 4 of 4 | 3.1 |
| 4 | Brown Harris Stevens | 95%: 64 to 87% | 92% | 92% | 100% | 25% | 4 of 4 | 3.4 |
| 5 | Sotheby's International RealtyAlso written Sotheby's International Realty – New York, Sotheby's International Realty - New York, Sotheby's International Realty - New York City, Sotheby’s International Realty – New York, Sotheby’s International Realty – New York City | 95%: 29 to 56% | 17% | 33% | 75% | 42% | 3 of 4 | 4.5 |
| 6 | Serhant. | 95%: 7 to 27% | 17% | 0% | 42% | 0% | 3 of 4 | 6 |
| 7 | Halstead | 95%: 5 to 22% | 0% | 0% | 42% | 0% | 3 of 4 | 7.4 |
| 8 | Bond New York | 95%: 3 to 20% | 0% | 0% | 33% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 6.3 |
| 9 | Citi Habitats | 95%: 2 to 17% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 5.3 |
| 10 | Houlihan Lawrence | 95%: 2 to 17% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 6 |
| 11 | Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 7 |
| 12 | MNS Real Estate | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 7 |
| 13 | Coldwell Banker Warburg | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 7.5 |
| 14 | Elegran | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 7.5 |
Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 2 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
What each assistant said
The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.
| # | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Grok |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corcoran100% | Corcoran100% | Corcoran100% | Corcoran100% |
| 2 | Douglas Elliman100% | Compass100% | Douglas Elliman100% | Douglas Elliman100% |
| 3 | Compass92% | Douglas Elliman92% | Compass100% | Compass100% |
| 4 | Brown Harris Stevens92% | Brown Harris Stevens92% | Brown Harris Stevens100% | Sotheby's International Realty42% |
| 5 | Sotheby's International Realty17% | Sotheby's International Realty33% | Sotheby's International Realty75% | Brown Harris Stevens25% |
Named here? Put it on your site
Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/real-estate-agencies/new-york"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/real-estate-agencies/new-york.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Real estate agencies in New York, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant through its API. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.
- 1Who is the best real estate agency in New York?
- 2I want to sell my home in New York. Which real estate agency would you recommend?
- 3I'm looking for an apartment to buy in New York. Which real estate agents should I contact?
- 4Which real estate agency in New York would you recommend for renting out an apartment?
How to read this page
- What it measures
- Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
- Why the ranges matter
- 48 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
- One business, several spellings
- Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
- A name is wrong
- If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.
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Edition September 2026 · data under CC BY 4.0