Realtor.com Just Launched a Homeowner Dashboard: Here Is How to Claim Yours
If you own a home in Bergen or Hudson County, Realtor.com today gave you a free dashboard to track your home's value, equity, rental potential, and local market activity in one place, and you should claim it. The relaunched My Home product went live across desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android on June 9, 2026, and it is built for the 87 million American homeowners who, in Realtor.com's own words, track their 401(k) daily but never check on the asset that is usually worth more than it.
What the New My Home Dashboard Actually Does
My Home is a one-page command center for everything that affects what your house is worth and what your next move could look like, pulling RealEstimate® valuation tracking, renovation ideas, short-term Airbnb rental estimates, long-term lease estimates through Avail, Buyer Demand Signals showing real views, saves, and inquiries on similarly priced nearby homes, a Buying Power tool that connects your existing equity to what you can realistically afford next (including selling costs, repairs, and transfer taxes), plus zip-code level median listing price, median days on market, and median price per square foot, with a link straight to a full Market Overview for your zip code, all in a single dashboard you claim for free in a few minutes. Dave Herman, Realtor.com's SVP of Product and AI Innovation, framed it plainly: "Homeownership has always come with big questions, but until now the answers have been scattered across different tools, sites and conversations."
How to Claim Your Home on Realtor.com
Go to Realtor.com, search your address, and click the "Claim this home" button on your property page. Claiming is free, takes a few minutes, and you can do it from desktop, mobile web, the iOS app, or the Android app. Once claimed, your dashboard updates automatically with your local zip-code market data and your home's RealEstimate® valuation over time.
Why This Matters in Fort Lee, Edgewater, Tenafly, and the Rest of Bergen and Hudson
The Bergen and Hudson Gold Coast moves on hyper-local signals, and the new My Home dashboard surfaces them by zip code, which is exactly the resolution that matters here. A median price per square foot in 07024 (Fort Lee) tells a different story than 07020 (Edgewater) or 07670 (Tenafly), and the dashboard now puts those side by side with how fast inventory is actually clearing. The Buyer Demand Signals feature is the one I would pay attention to most: if Realtor.com is telling you that homes in your price band near you are getting heavy views, saves, and inquiries, that is a real-time signal that your equity position is stronger than the headlines suggest.
What the Dashboard Will Not Tell You
An automated valuation is a starting point, not an answer. The RealEstimate® on your Fort Lee high-rise, your Leonia center-hall colonial, or your Edgewater riverfront condo is an algorithm averaging recent comps, and it does not know that your unit has the Manhattan-skyline-view line, that your block in Cliffside Park is one of three with the Edgewater school option, or that the comparable that just closed in your building was a distressed sale. The dashboard will not tell you whether now is a good time to sell your specific home for your specific reason. It will not tell you what an actual buyer pool in Bergen or Hudson is willing to pay over ask this month. It will not negotiate your contract, manage your inspections, coordinate your downsizing, or run the NJ to Florida side of a dual-state move. That is the judgment layer, and that is what I do.
The Bigger Shift: Agents Who Disappear After Closing Are Done
The whole premise of the My Home dashboard, that homeowners want to manage their largest asset actively, not just at the moment of sale, is the same premise I built my practice on 32 years ago. The agent who hands you keys and vanishes until you are ready to sell again is not an advisor; that is a transaction. My job is to keep you informed about what your home is worth, what is happening on your block, what your equity could do for you, and what the next move could look like, year after year, whether or not you are actively buying or selling. The Realtor.com dashboard is a useful tool. I am the human reading it with you and telling you what it means for your life.
As Brené Brown puts it, "Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind." That is the standard I hold myself to with every homeowner I work with, in the weeks after closing and in the years after.
How to Use the Dashboard With an Advisor
Claim your home today. Spend ten minutes looking at your RealEstimate®, your zip-code market data, your Buyer Demand Signals, and your Buying Power number. Then send me a screenshot or a question. I will tell you what is accurate, what is missing, what is worth acting on, and what to ignore. That is the conversation that turns data into a decision.
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About Scott Selleck
Scott Selleck is an AI-Enabled Transition Advisor and REALTOR® serving Bergen County and Hudson County, New Jersey, with 32 years of experience and more than 500 closed transactions. He specializes in seniors downsizing (SRES®), relocation, historic and luxury homes, riverfront NJ Gold Coast communities, multi-family properties, and NJ to Florida transitions. Learn more on his About page.
Resources: Brené Brown, Dare to Lead.
Sources: Realtor.com press release via PR Newswire (June 9, 2026).
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