Wellness Real Estate Projected To Hit $1.8 Trillion by 2030 as Developers Tout Life-Extending Homes

Once upon a time, wellness at home meant maybe adding some fitness equipment or a sauna. Today, some homeowners hope their homes can actually help them live longer.In fact, according to the most recent America at Home study, 60% of homeowners say the inclusion of home features that will improve their health and wellness is their No. 1 purchase motivator, up 17 points from two years prior. Wellness as the top purchase-motivator category landed ahead of saving money and conserving energy.That may also help explain why wellness real estate—which is defined as the development of properties that intentionally integrate wellness into their design, materials, building features, amenities, services, or programming—is now the fastest growing segment of the nearly $7 trillion wellness industry.The Global Wellness Institute's latest numbers show the wellness real estate sector reached $876 billion in 2025, a 24% average annual growth rate from 2019 to 2025. The United States alone accounts for $254 billion of that number. Total industry projections are estimated to hit a whopping $1.8 trillion by 2030.That's an astronomical leap from an industry that once looked like a dusty treadmill in a be...