Lightstone uses a unique blend of strategic expertise, proprietary data and
technology to provide information and analytical studies on all commercial
properties in South Africa.
Property/Address Validation
Our validation service provides a standard in capturing
and storing property details. It assists in cleaning up
a property portfolio, ensuring each property has the
correct address detail. Properties can be placed on a map
showing and attaching geo-coordinated and geo-spatial
risk characteristics, catastrophe risk metrics, credit risk
metrics and risk quality grades to each property and the
portfolio as a whole.
Furthermore details on the
owners of commercial
properties are provided.
Nodal Reports
Our Nodal reports benchmark an area where the property
is located, providing useful information on whether the
properties performance is aligned to other properties
located in the area.
Details contained within the report focus on the the size
of the market area, a composition of assets – industrial,
retail, office etc. Average gross rentals p/m², capitalisation
rates, it gives insight into the existing development rights,
committed developments, recent sales in the area, any
vacancies, market take up and
other indicators of demand.
We further provide
demographics, income
levels of the population
contained within the area
and surrounds.
Batch Data Clean Up
We are fanatical about high quality data, focusing on the
cleaning of data, and developing unique teams, systems
and processes to build and maintain proprietary data.
Analytical and Consulting Projects
This offering is project based, where we would provide a
scope to meet our client’s needs. It involves projects like
portfolio valuation services such as data cleansing, property
validation and value add, as well as bespoke projects
such as property market studies and feasibility studies.
We use proprietary data and information as the basis and
framework for analytic projects and modelling with client
specific data being
overlaid to generate
unique insights,
perspectives and
processes for our
clients.