Smarter location decisions with Lightstone Explore
Built on 20 years of South African retail data and trusted by leading retail chains, LEO is Lightstone's location intelligence platform for property and planning teams making high-stakes location decisions. From demographic insight and catchment analysis to market reports and network planning, LEO gives your team the data to make recommendations your business can stand behind.
Trusted by Location Professionals
Trusted by South Africa's leading brands
The Data Behind Every Location Recommendation
Whether you are reviewing an existing store, planning a relocation, assessing a new site opportunity or building a case for network growth, LEO helps property and planning teams evaluate opportunities through a clearer location lens.
Master the LEO with a Easy Video Guide
Get hands-on guidance with our step-by-step video tutorials. Whether you're a beginner or looking to deepen your knowledge, this video will help you navigate LEO and get a Market report with ease.
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Designed for everyday decisions and bigger growth strategies
LEO is used predominantly by in-house property and retail planning teams making regular location and market decisions. It is also used by market analysts, strategy consultants and businesses with more specialised planning needs, including bespoke data visualisation and spatial analysis.
Retail and Property Planning
Assess current locations, identify new site opportunities and support smarter expansion decisions with location-based insight.
Network Optimisation
Review your current footprint, identify growth gaps and support stronger network decisions with clearer market visibility.
Demographic & Market Analysis
Explore the people in an area, compare locations and uncover stronger commercial opportunities with greater confidence.
Your Data on The Map
Bring your internal datasets into LEO and we will visualise them alongside Lightstone's data layers for a single, integrated view of your business.
Explore, Analyse And Act
With More Confidence
LEO brings together map-based visualisation and data querying so teams can move beyond static information and explore the bigger picture behind a location.
From Map Data To
Decision-Ready Insight
Businesses use LEO because it replaces instinct with evidence. Property and planning teams use it to build recommendations they can defend, senior leaders use it to understand whether location is driving performance, and analysts use it to turn layered data into clear, structured outputs. Whatever the decision, LEO gives your team a credible foundation to work from.
South African Market Data
Demographic and location data updated annually to reflect the real SA market
Fast Market Reports
Market reports generated in minutes for any radius or polygon
One Platform, Richer Insight
A single platform combining retail landscape, demographics, movement data and your own internal data
Trusted by Leading Retailers
Trusted by South Africa's leading retail chains for over 20 years
Powerful Insight Deserves A Proven Data Foundation
LEO is built on data that South Africa's leading retailers have trusted for over 20 years. From the malls and stores that make up the national retail landscape to the demographic and movement datasets that reveal who shops where and why, every layer in LEO is maintained, validated and updated to reflect the real SA market.
Designed For Clarity and Ease
Whether you are making daily location decisions or setting long-term network strategy, LEO gives you the data to act with confidence.
Retailers and Property Teams
Assess current locations, identify new site opportunities and support smarter expansion and leasing decisions.
Senior Retail Leaders
Use location intelligence to build network strategy, understand performance drivers and make decisions your business can stand behind.
Analysts & Planning Specialists
Explore market patterns, compare areas and turn location data into clear, well-supported recommendations.
Consultants & Property Advisors
Give your clients credible, data-backed location insight drawn from South Africa's most trusted retail datasets.
Find The Right Location
With More Confidence
Whether you are planning a store, reviewing a network or exploring a new site opportunity, LEO brings the surrounding market into focus so you can make smarter, data-backed location decisions.
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Testimonials
What Our Users Say
“LEO is the first place we go when weighing up a new store. Everything we need in one view, backed by brilliant support from the Lightstone team.”
Adam Hudgson
Cashbuild
“Lightstone and LEO have transformed how we plan our blood drives. We can now pinpoint the right areas, reach lapsed donors and target by blood type exactly when we need it.”
Terrance Pillay
Contact Centre Manager, SANBS
“We use LEO across all our brands to guide new store placement. Understanding the population and how people move gives us the confidence to put each store in exactly the right place.”
Simon Bradshaw
IT Director, Mr Price Group