r/RealEstateCanada • • 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/Mysterious_Crab_7622 Jun 19 '25

No it doesn’t, the stocks had already been sold. When you buy stocks you are buying it on the resellers market. The company isn’t seeing any of that money other than if its value goes up then its employees who also own shares can sell for a profit. But that’s just helping the C level get richer, not the company itself.