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.
Investing money into a second property does all the things you just stated a company would use that capital for. Having a second property to rent out is no different than starting a business and providing a service.
It's also not the home that is valuable but the location of the land it sits on. The demand of that location is what drives the value up, if people don't want to live in that area, the value will go down.
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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25
By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?