We may be in a buyer's market, but does that actually mean it's time for you to buy real estate?

We haven't seen this type of market for a long time, so we're going to break it down today

and talk about whether you should buy new properties, pay down your mortgages,

or wait for even better opportunities down the line.

I'm Dave Meyer, welcome to On the line. I'm Dave Meyer.

Welcome to On the Market.

And today we're joined by our expert panel, Kathy Fecky, James Dana, and Henry Washington.

Kathy, how are you?

So good.

Yeah, it's Surf Week here in Malibu, so that's why I'm wearing a hat. Isn't that like saying it's rain week in Seattle? Hey, the summer's very nice here. James, happy birthday. Oh, that's right, my man. You had a good party, it looked like. Yeah, we were out of seafarer. Blue Angels, air shows, hydroplanes, boats. That's kind of birthday. James, when was your birthday?

I feel like a dummy. It was on the second. Oh, happy belated. You know, I'd prefer if I didn't have

anymore. No, that's, I don't know if you know what that means. If you don't have any more birthdays.

Either get older, you die. Gotta love the birthdays. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

And Henry, how's it going, man? I am great. I, for one, like being alive. So I would love some more

birthdays. Yeah, amen. Believe in that. All right. We got a great show for you guys today. We were

talking about the fact that we are in a buyer's market,

but as you probably all know, this does cause some confusion because some people see a buyer's

market as an opportunity. Some people see it as a risk. So we are going to take sort of a big

picture look at the whole nationwide real estate market and talk about regional differences,

of course. But

generally speaking, who should be buying, who should be paying off their mortgages, who should

be waiting, maybe who should be selling? Let's just talk a big picture strategy about the market

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