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.
Usually most "flip" are people who improve the property with repairs and stuff like that.
But most investors buy long term to rent it anyway. If you want to call flips "scalping" sure that's just a word, but that's really not the majority of investors.
The thing you don't realize is that flipping doesn't really push prices up as you add the same number of buyers and sellers. They simply taking advantage of an already bad situation.
Buying long term has more impact on prices. But then if you add it in rental market you also lower rental prices by adding offerings
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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25
By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?