Press Release: 00010

1 March 2004

Source: http://www.ukpropertyshop.co.uk

Moving Location Index (Towns) - March 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Brighton	Sussex	433
2	Dundee	Angus	305
3	Chester	Cheshire	257
4	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	232
5	Hull	Yorkshire	212
6	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	211
7	Harrogate	Yorkshire	198
8	Salisbury	Wiltshire	195
9	Bridlington	Yorkshire	192
10	Stirling	Stirling	188
11	Bournemouth	Dorset	184
12	York	Yorkshire	179
13	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	175
14	Taunton	Somerset	154
15	Chichester	Sussex	154
16	Norwich	Norfolk	138
17	Bath	Somerset	138
18	Barnsley	Yorkshire	138
19	Cheltenham	Gloucestershire	136
20	Blackpool	Lancashire	130
21	Oban	Argyll & Bute	130
22	Padstow	Cornwall	130
23	Inverness	Highland	128
24	Swansea	Swansea	126
25	St Austell	Cornwall	118
26	Selby	Yorkshire	113
27	Lancaster	Lancashire	110
28	Weymouth	Dorset	110
29	Torquay	Devon	109
30	Colchester	Essex	108
31	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	107
32	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	106
33	Newquay	Cornwall	106
34	Beverley	Yorkshire	102
35	Lichfield	Staffordshire	101
36	Hastings	Sussex	100
37	Bury	Greater Manchester	96
38	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	95
39	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	94
40	Halifax	Yorkshire	94
41	Truro	Cornwall	92
42	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Staffordshire	92
43	Penzance	Cornwall	92
44	Perth	Perth & Kinross	91
45	Bakewell	Derbyshire	90
46	Bude	Cornwall	90
47	Plymouth	Devon	83
48	Dunfermline	Fife	83
49	Dorchester	Dorset	83
50	Wetherby	Yorkshire	80

Note for Editors about the Moving Location Index and UK Property Shop

The UK Property Shop Moving Location Index is based on data from a sample of people looking to buy a property and using the website to register their property search requirements with estate agents in each town. From this data a score is calculated according to the number who are considering either moving within the town where they live, or away from their home town and into another town. The Moving Location Index is not a measure of quality, simply an indication of the relative proportion of home buyers wishing to move into or out of a town, which is influenced by many factors.

The UK Property Shop website www.ukpropertyshop.co.uk was launched in 1999 and is a popular source of information for people looking to buy, sell, rent or let residential property in the UK. It also publishes the National Directory of Estate Agents, the most complete and up to date register of all UK estate agents and letting agents.