Press Release: 00011

1 May 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - May 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Brighton	Sussex	342
2	York	Yorkshire	289
3	Dundee	Angus	287
4	Bournemouth	Dorset	281
5	Weymouth	Dorset	266
6	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	244
7	Blackpool	Lancashire	238
8	Norwich	Norfolk	203
9	Inverness	Highland	198
10	Plymouth	Devon	191
11	Alnwick	Northumberland	171
12	Oxford	Oxfordshire	170
13	Hull	Yorkshire	170
14	Bridlington	Yorkshire	170
15	Winchester	Hampshire	166
16	Bath	Somerset	155
17	Belfast	County Antrim	153
18	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	152
19	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	138
20	Chichester	Sussex	137
21	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	131
22	Chester	Cheshire	121
23	Bury	Greater Manchester	121
24	Cheltenham	Gloucestershire	117
25	Torquay	Devon	113
26	Salisbury	Wiltshire	112
27	Skipton	Yorkshire	110
28	Exeter	Devon	109
29	Horsham	Sussex	105
30	Tenby	Pembrokeshire	100
31	Northallerton	Yorkshire	100
32	Guildford	Surrey	99
33	Bedford	Bedfordshire	96
34	Newquay	Cornwall	93
35	Eastbourne	Sussex	92
36	Dorchester	Dorset	92
37	Cockermouth	Cumbria	90
38	Maidstone	Kent	89
39	Ipswich	Suffolk	85
40	Oswestry	Shropshire	84
41	Truro	Cornwall	84
42	Barnsley	Yorkshire	83
43	Petersfield	Hampshire	83
44	Sunderland	Tyne & Wear	82
45	Scarborough	Yorkshire	82
46	St Albans	Hertfordshire	81
47	Wadebridge	Cornwall	81
48	Gloucester	Gloucestershire	80
49	Sutton Coldfield	West Midlands	80
50	Bridport	Dorset	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.