Wellness and Real Estate: What Practitioners Need to Know

February 18, 2025 More buyers and homeowners want wellness features in their homes, and real estate agents need to be ready to deliver. Architects, designers and wellness experts are curating wellness spaces for individual and group activities in large part because of demand for these kinds of features. Certain demographics such as Gen Zers and Millennials show extra interest, according to McKinsey’s latest wellness report, which pegged the 2024 global market at $1.8 trillion. Real estate professionals will find more and more of their customers seek homes with wellness-specific features or examples of how to add wellness into their lives. Here are ways to share with homeowners how wellness can become part of their residential surroundings and lives: Use Natural Elements in the Home To fashion the right backdrop and mood for a wellness space, more professionals incorporate the tenets of biophilic design, which connects users to nature through views and access to the outdoors and choices of natural materials. Designer Alena Capra,…

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Ask Designers and Architects: Top Home Trends for 2025

These 12 trends are shaping home design with a focus on sustainability, comfort, and innovation. When designers and architects are asked about trends influencing them as the new year begins, fewer cite home offices as the primary focus. While homeowners still desire dedicated workspaces in the home, more are returning to outside offices full-time. Instead, new trends are emerging. Real estate agents can use this information to inform their clients, plan their business and keep the lines of communication open with clients who might not need to buy or sell, but are ready for a refresh for their home.  Here are a dozen noteworthy ones: 1. TV-Less Living Rooms Once the focal point of many living rooms—taking center stage from fireplaces—the TV is on its way out, says designer and architect TC Chou of Design Determination in New York City. Why now: More people are watching movies on personal devices and prefer arranging living rooms for multiple conversations rather than positioning one…

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NAR Introduces New Flexibility for Sellers While Retaining Clear Cooperation Policy

New policy statement gives MLSs discretion to set a delay period in which sellers and their agents can keep their properties from being marketed publicly through IDX or syndication. © peshkov / iStock / Getty Images Plus “Informed consumer choice” might well be a catchphrase for the National Association of REALTORS® as it navigates an industry-wide dialogue about the options for marketing real estate listings. On Tuesday, after months of deliberation and input from a wide range of stakeholders, NAR President Kevin Sears announced that the association’s Clear Cooperation Policy will remain in place. However, the NAR Leadership Team has introduced a new MLS policy statement that will work alongside CCP to give brokers the flexibility to meet the needs of selling clients while also supporting fair housing by providing buyers and their agents with equal access to MLS property information. Both CCP and the new policy statement, Multiple Listing Options for Sellers, are part of NAR’s Handbook on Multiple Listing Policy,…

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NAR Introduces New Flexibility for Sellers While Retaining Clear Cooperation Policy
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