Press Release: 00016

31 January 2006

Weymouth Olympics triumph

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

Weymouth has moved up from position four last month to be top of the list for January in the Home Location Index published by UK Property Shop - could this possibly be related to the town's forthcoming involvement with the Olympic Games? Classic favourites Doncaster, York, Inverness, Lincoln and Harrogate are also right up there, closely followed by no fewer than four coastal towns - Brighton, Chichester, Hastings and Penzance.

Moving Location Index (Towns) - January 2006

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Weymouth	Dorset	113
2	Doncaster	Yorkshire	93
3	York	Yorkshire	85
4	Inverness	Highland	83
5	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	81
6	Harrogate	Yorkshire	77
7	Brighton	Sussex	75
8	Chichester	Sussex	73
9	Hastings	Sussex	61
10	Penzance	Cornwall	60
11	Salford	Greater Manchester	56
12	Winchester	Hampshire	55
13	Newton Abbot	Devon	53
14	Chester	Cheshire	52
15	Belfast	County Antrim	52
16	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	52
17	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	51
18	St Ives	Cornwall	50
19	Newquay	Cornwall	50
20	Kingswinford	West Midlands	50
21	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	49
22	Banbury	Oxfordshire	49
23	Rochdale	Greater Manchester	48
24	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	47
25	Canterbury	Kent	47
26	Scarborough	Yorkshire	46
27	Stafford	Staffordshire	45
28	Southport	Merseyside	44
29	Salisbury	Wiltshire	43
30	Skegness	Lincolnshire	43
31	Bridlington	Yorkshire	42
32	Herne Bay	Kent	42
33	Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	41
34	Cirencester	Gloucestershire	41
35	Hexham	Northumberland	41
36	Macclesfield	Cheshire	41
37	Spalding	Lincolnshire	41
38	Montrose	Angus	41
39	Godalming	Surrey	41
40	Bath	Somerset	40
41	Penrith	Cumbria	40
42	Pembroke	Pembrokeshire	40
43	Perranporth	Cornwall	40
44	Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	39
45	Ipswich	Suffolk	37
46	Perth	Perth & Kinross	37
47	Dunfermline	Fife	36
48	Lancaster	Lancashire	35
49	Torquay	Devon	33
50	Lowestoft	Suffolk	33

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.