2025 Build Well to Live Well: The Future

Build Well to Live Well: The Future is an in-depth exploration of the wellness real estate market and a valuable reference guide for the real estate and building industry. It aims to support the industry and its stakeholders to prepare for a future where wellness real estate can be implemented on any scale (from a single home to an entire neighborhood), can meet the needs of diverse residents/occupants, and can be delivered at many price points. This report is a full update of GWI’s pioneering 2018 wellness real estate report.

The built environment is the next frontier and greatest future opportunity for wellness. This report is a deep dive into why we need more wellness real estate, how to build it, and how to communicate its health and economic benefits. It explores six dimensions of wellness to incorporate into projects (physical, mental and spiritual, social, civic and community, economic and financial, and environmental) and how to tangibly realize them. It aggregates the vast body of evidence on how built environments impact human health and provides the very first compilation of wellness impact studies conducted by residential, commercial, and mixed-use real estate projects. It also identifies twelve of the biggest future opportunities for the market, with dozens of project examples worldwide.

A companion report, Build Well to Live Well: Case Studies, will be released in Fall 2025, with in-depth case studies illustrating a wide range of wellness real estate projects across different regions, types and sizes of properties, and target markets.

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