5th Annual Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium
New York City | May 12, 2026 | Location TBD
$1,200 for early in person registration (price will increase to $1,500 after March 15)
Explore sponsorship opportunities and connect with top decision-makers in wellness real estate.
Real Estate Through a Wellness Lens
Real estate is no longer just about location, design, or return on investment. It’s about how a space makes you feel. How it helps you sleep. How it supports your health. How it shapes the way you live.
As the $6.8 trillion global wellness economy grows, one sector is expanding faster than any other: wellness real estate. Homes, offices, and communities are being reimagined as active contributors to mental health, longevity, resilience, and disease prevention.
Buildings aren’t neutral. They either support human health — or they don’t. That shift changes everything.
Why This Conversation Matters Now
For decades, wellness lived inside spas, fitness studios, and medical systems.
Today, it’s built into foundations. It’s wired into infrastructure. It’s influencing master-planned communities and long-term investment strategies.
When architecture, science, medicine, and capital move into the same conversation, something powerful happens. We stop designing for aesthetics alone. We start designing for human outcomes.
That’s the lens. That’s the future.
A Dedicated Forum for a Defining Shift
On May 12 in New York City, the Global Wellness Summit and Global Wellness Institute convene leaders across disciplines for a full-day symposium focused entirely on the future of wellness real estate.
Architects and designers. Scientists and physicians. Developers, investors, and technologists. Not speaking past each other — but working at the intersection.
The gathering coincides with the release of the Global Wellness Institute’s second volume of Build Well to Live Well: Case Studies, spotlighting the GCC region and offering fresh, on-the-ground research from GWI Fellows.
This is not theory. It’s real projects. Real communities. Real capital. Wellness built at scale.
What You’ll Gain
- Insight into how wellness principles are being integrated into cities and communities worldwide
- A clearer understanding of how built environments influence long-term health outcomes
- Exposure to emerging investment strategies in the fastest-growing sector of the wellness economy
- Direct dialogue with cross-sector leaders shaping the next era of real estate
The Future Is Built
The next chapter of wellness isn’t a product. It’s not a program. It’s not a trend. It’s infrastructure. If real estate shapes how we live, then it also shapes how we age, how we recover, how we connect, and how we thrive. It’s time to view real estate through a wellness lens. Join us in New York.
