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Healthy Real Estate

Traditionally, people make choices about where they will live based on educational factors and a range of other amenities. In the future, more will use health and wellness criteria such as walkable communities, access to organic and local food sources, and hospital ratings to determine where they should buy or rent a home.

ePatient 2015, the book where the Healthy Real Estate trend was first published

First published in ePatient 2015 →

Trend Longevity Rating

A Graded A in 2026 ·
became core infrastructure in health care, often bigger than the book imagined

How this trend held up

This trend has become thoroughly mainstream. The WELL Building Standard the book cites as a fringe experiment is now a globally recognized certification used across thousands of commercial and residential projects, Walk Score is a standard field on real-estate listing sites like Zillow and Redfin, and the post-pandemic surge in demand for home air quality, natural light, and outdoor access accelerated exactly the shift the book described. If anything, "healthy real estate" undersold how central wellness criteria would become to how — and where — people choose to live.

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