Press Release: 00012

30 April 2006

North and south united in desire for seaside lifestyle

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

Blackpool and Newquay lead the way in the UK Property Shop Moving Location Index for April 2006, although these seaside resorts could hardly be more different in size and style. Cornwall continues to be well represented, with Wadebridge, Penzance and St Ives also in the top twenty favoured destinations for those thinking about moving home.

Moving Location Index (Towns) - April 2006

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Blackpool	Lancashire	85
2	Newquay	Cornwall	63
3	Banbury	Oxfordshire	62
4	Carlisle	Cumbria	62
5	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	55
6	Wadebridge	Cornwall	51
7	Hereford	Herefordshire	43
8	Penzance	Cornwall	43
9	Hove	Sussex	41
10	Weymouth	Dorset	41
11	Sevenoaks	Kent	41
12	Hull	Yorkshire	41
13	St Ives	Cornwall	40
14	Skipton	Yorkshire	40
15	Haddington	East Lothian	40
16	Goole	Yorkshire	40
17	Middlesbrough	Durham	40
18	Stirling	Stirling	37
19	Swindon	Wiltshire	37
20	Belfast	County Antrim	36
21	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	35
22	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	34
23	York	Yorkshire	34
24	Ayr	Ayrshire	34
25	Taunton	Somerset	33
26	Chelmsford	Essex	32
27	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	32
28	Northwich	Cheshire	32
29	Grimsby	Lincolnshire	31
30	Tavistock	Devon	31
31	Whitstable	Kent	31
32	Chorley	Lancashire	31
33	Abergavenny	Monmouthshire	31
34	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Northumberland	31
35	Cardigan	Ceredigion	31
36	Scarborough	Yorkshire	30
37	Barnstaple	Devon	30
38	Totnes	Devon	30
39	Isle of Skye	Scottish Islands	30
40	Sherborne	Dorset	30
41	Falmouth	Cornwall	30
42	Shaftesbury	Dorset	30
43	Chepstow	Monmouthshire	30
44	Ilfracombe	Devon	30
45	Margate	Kent	30
46	Amersham	Buckinghamshire	30
47	Ilkeston	Derbyshire	30
48	Perranporth	Cornwall	30
49	Chester le Street	Durham	30
50	Isle of Anglesey	Gwynedd	30

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.