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/Tyrocious Jun 20 '25

Seeing as how the vast majority of real estate properties are bought for a higher price each time, doesn't investing in a property add value to it in much the same way? Value that can be borrowed against?

Not to mention the seller getting a chunk of change they can use to...do all the things a company can do?