Lightstone

20/10/2026

What's happening to residential property prices across South Africa?

Lightstone's latest House Price Index provides a closer look at house price movements, offering valuable insights into the trends in the residential property market. Whether you're buying, selling or working in property, understanding how prices are changing is key to making informed decisions.

View or download the latest Lightstone House Price Index: https://hubs.ly/Q04BHmDy0.

19/10/2026

It started with a gap in the market.

In 2005, Anthony Miller and Pete Backwell identified a challenge the property industry could no longer ignore: banks were managing property risk through manual and inconsistent valuation processes.

The acquisition of Strategis and the early development of an automated valuation model helped open a new chapter in South African property intelligence.

Twenty years later, Lightstone continues to help the industry make smarter, faster and more trusted property decisions. Explore the full 20-year Lightstone Financial Services timeline: https://hubs.ly/Q04BnhZP0.

16/10/2026

Every property has a different story. Your reports should help you tell it. Toolkit Reports now offer greater flexibility, allowing you to customise graphs, adjust maps and shape your report around the insights most relevant to your client.

Choose how information is displayed and create a report that supports the conversation you want to have. Log in to Toolkit today and start customising your reports: https://hubs.ly/Q04Bn5s00.

14/10/2026

Why canvas harder when you can canvas smarter? The Canvassing Brochure combines Lightstone data-rich insights with Prop Data personalisation to help you canvas smarter, close faster and stay POPIA-compliant.

Get the Canvassing Brochure that generates leads and secures mandates: https://hubs.ly/Q04B6V670.

13/10/2026

Lightstone is at this week!

Esteani Marx, Business Development Executive at Lightstone, will be among the speakers at the 2026 NAMA National Conference.
Taking place on 15–16 October at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, this year’s conference is themed “Back to the Future” and promises engaging conversations about where the property industry is heading and how data can help it get there.

For more info: https://hubs.ly/Q04zZNWv0.

12/10/2026

Suburb-level data tells one story.
Complex-level data tells another.

The Complexes in a Suburb Report helps you compare sectional schemes and estates within a suburb, giving you access to valuations, sales trends and investment activity at a far more detailed level.

Compare, understand and sell better. Get the Complexes in a Suburb Report today: https://hubs.ly/Q04zTclQ0.

09/10/2026

What will it take to bring more of South Africa’s property market into view?

At our recent 20-year Financial Services gathering, one of the conversations focused on the opportunity to build better property intelligence in parts of the market that have historically sat outside traditional data sources.

Better information about properties, ownership and value could help financial institutions make more informed lending decisions and, over time, broaden access to the formal property and financial markets. It’s an important conversation for the next chapter of property intelligence in South Africa, and one that Business Day’s Noxolo Majavu picked up following the event.

Read the full article here: https://www.businessday.co.za/companies/2026-10-09-lightstone-targets-formalisation-of-60-of-property-ownership-records/.

Aerial and satellite imagery are key to mapping 1.3-billion square metres outside deeds registry

09/10/2026

Why are Cape Town homes selling faster than those in Johannesburg?

Lightstone's Esteani Marx joined Jeremy Maggs on Moneyweb@Midday to to break down what the numbers say about time on market in South Africa’s two major cities and why the two markets are moving so differently right now.

Catch the full conversation: https://hubs.ly/Q04zK95j0.

07/10/2026

What a day! Celebrating 20 years of Lightstone Financial Services brought together great minds, meaningful conversations and a shared reflection on how far we’ve come - and where we’re headed next. Our speaker line-up included:

• Elsie Rateiwa, Head: Financial Services Commercial Team, Lightstone
• Arthur Goldstuck, Founder and Managing Director, World Wide Worx, who delivered the keynote address
• Isaah Mhlanga, Chief Economist and Head of Research, RMB
• Paul-Roux de K**k, Chief Analytics Officer, Lightstone
• Pieter Wessels, CEO, Coaxle
• Josephine Baliah, Executive: Product Innovation & Client Solutions, Business & Commercial Banking, Nedbank
• Anthony Miller, CEO, Simply
• Sara Winstone, Managing Director, Lightstone

A huge thank you to our speakers for sharing their perspectives and insights, to our wonderful MC, Unathi Batyashe, for expertly guiding the conversation, and to every guest who joined us, contributed to the discussion and made the morning so worthwhile.

Twenty years is a milestone worth celebrating, but the conversation doesn’t end here. We look forward to continuing it and shaping what comes next, together.

Here’s to the next 20.

Nedbank

07/10/2026

The next 20 years will not be shaped by technology alone. They will be driven by trusted, human-centric AI that turns complex property data into clearer, more confident decisions.

From AiVM to the next generation of intelligent property solutions, Lightstone remains focused on what comes next: smarter tools, stronger insights and greater value for the industry.

The next 20 starts now. Learn more about the next era of property intelligence with Lightstone: Financial Services | Lightstone (https://hubs.ly/Q04zgmpp0.