Press Release: 00018

1 March 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - March 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Bath	Somerset	326
2	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	315
3	Brighton	Sussex	247
4	Halifax	Yorkshire	225
5	Winchester	Hampshire	225
6	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	221
7	Inverness	Highland	214
8	Cheltenham	Gloucestershire	197
9	Barnsley	Yorkshire	176
10	Chelmsford	Essex	169
11	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	167
12	Stroud	Gloucestershire	143
13	St Austell	Cornwall	142
14	Tavistock	Devon	141
15	Hastings	Sussex	137
16	Banbury	Oxfordshire	134
17	Dunfermline	Fife	126
18	Carlisle	Cumbria	125
19	Lewes	Sussex	124
20	Chester	Cheshire	122
21	Durham	Durham	122
22	Darlington	Durham	120
23	Ludlow	Shropshire	120
24	Newquay	Cornwall	117
25	Belfast	County Antrim	115
26	York	Yorkshire	113
27	Chichester	Sussex	110
28	Perth	Perth & Kinross	109
29	Ipswich	Suffolk	108
30	Truro	Cornwall	108
31	Harrogate	Yorkshire	105
32	Hull	Yorkshire	104
33	Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	104
34	Eastbourne	Sussex	102
35	Exeter	Devon	100
36	Ilfracombe	Devon	100
37	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	96
38	Buckingham	Buckinghamshire	92
39	Bridport	Dorset	91
40	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	90
41	Stirling	Stirling	90
42	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	89
43	Bridlington	Yorkshire	83
44	Taunton	Somerset	82
45	Torquay	Devon	82
46	Ripon	Yorkshire	82
47	Whitchurch	Shropshire	82
48	Totnes	Devon	82
49	Bridgnorth	Shropshire	81
50	Kenilworth	Warwickshire	81

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.