Press Release: 00017

1 April 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - April 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	265
2	Bournemouth	Dorset	237
3	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	225
4	Belfast	County Antrim	211
5	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	209
6	Exmouth	Devon	205
7	Blackpool	Lancashire	191
8	Wetherby	Yorkshire	172
9	Bridport	Dorset	171
10	Worcester	Worcestershire	161
11	Penzance	Cornwall	155
12	Dorchester	Dorset	147
13	Hastings	Sussex	144
14	Oswestry	Shropshire	142
15	Inverness	Highland	140
16	Whitby	Yorkshire	140
17	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	139
18	Brighton	Sussex	137
19	Stroud	Gloucestershire	133
20	Lewes	Sussex	132
21	Hexham	Northumberland	131
22	Dartmouth	Devon	130
23	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	128
24	Newquay	Cornwall	118
25	Winchester	Hampshire	117
26	Selby	Yorkshire	117
27	Kingston upon Thames	Greater London	116
28	Aberystwyth	Ceredigion	113
29	Skegness	Lincolnshire	112
30	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	112
31	Tavistock	Devon	111
32	Dunoon	Argyll & Bute	110
33	Taunton	Somerset	109
34	Wrexham	Wrexham	105
35	Lichfield	Staffordshire	104
36	Newmarket	Suffolk	103
37	Norwich	Norfolk	101
38	St Ives	Cornwall	101
39	Marlborough	Wiltshire	101
40	Alnwick	Northumberland	100
41	Oban	Argyll & Bute	100
42	Weston-super-Mare	Somerset	98
43	Barnsley	Yorkshire	97
44	Eastbourne	Sussex	96
45	Dundee	Angus	96
46	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	94
47	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	94
48	St Austell	Cornwall	94
49	Falmouth	Cornwall	93
50	Southsea	Hampshire	92

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.