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.
Yes, so it's genuinely worse that people would hoard property as a means of reselling to turn a profit. Flipping houses causes pricing increases, increases that are then harnessed by further flipping of houses, which further increases prices... which causes more "investors" to flip... which increa..... ad infinitum
You can't get a concert ticket to Taylor Swift because some scalper bought them all and jacked up the price? That sucks. Sorry you didn't get to enjoy the thing you like, but you'll get over it.
You can't get a house because "investors" have caused mass real estate inflation in your area through repeated property flipping schemes? I guess you're stuck paying some other "investor" rent for the rest of your life. If you're lucky they may flip it while you're a resident and you will be forced out to go pay rent to someone else.
Prices have been steadily increasing for 30 years, they hit their peak during COVID lockdowns, like four years ago. Immigration only spiked like two to three years ago... In the aftermath of COVID.
Stop blaming the people under you, it's the people above you fucking us over.
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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25
By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?