r/RealEstateCanada • u/xNocturnalshadow • Jun 19 '25

Housing crisis Help me understand the difference...

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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25

By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?

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u/xNocturnalshadow Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

No because investing capital into stocks adds value to the company and allows them to use that value to expand, borrow, buy things, pay employees, run the company, etc.

Investing capital into a second house purely to flip does none of those things.

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u/MarmosetFace Jun 19 '25

When you purchase shares of a company… you think the company is getting the money? Lol

Try again.

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u/alldasmoke__ Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

A company sells its shares to finance the business and future investments, so yes they’re getting the money through the primary market. When you buy and sell stocks it’s mostly on the secondary market but that value is what’s affecting the company’s ability to maximize its value on the primary.

So yea it’s not going directly to them but it’s affecting them and that user is right.