The Wellness Buyer's Audit

Five questions that separate genuine wellness real estate from decorative marketing. A framework for evaluating branded residences before you sign.

What's Inside

Sixty-seven percent of new branded residence projects promise wellness. Only twenty-three percent have verifiable certification or dedicated staff. The gap is forty-four percentage points — and it is where capital gets misallocated.

This audit reduces the evaluation to five technical dimensions. Each dimension carries a single question that resolves in under sixty seconds when the developer has the answer ready. When they don't, the silence is the finding.

The Five Dimensions

  1. 1.Certification — Is the registration number consultable, or is the project "designed to WELL principles" without documentation?
  2. 2.Staffing — Does wellness staff appear as a fixed annual line in the pro forma, or is it hotel rotation?
  3. 3.Seasonality — What operates on September 15? A genuine program runs identically in low season.
  4. 4.Biometrics — Who reviews the data, and what are their credentials? A clinician, or a spa director?
  5. 5.Food Sourcing — Is the supply chain traceable, or is "farm-to-table" a marketing phrase?

Who this is for: Buyers evaluating branded wellness residences in Pacific Mexico, Costa Rica, or comparable corridors — who want to separate genuine infrastructure from decorative vocabulary before the first meeting.

Who this is not for: Buyers who measure value by amenity checklists, or who prefer the reassurance of a brochure over the precision of a spec sheet.

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