Press Release: 00002

1 August 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - August 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	340
2	Brighton	Sussex	287
3	Weymouth	Dorset	226
4	Belfast	County Antrim	207
5	Bath	Somerset	189
6	Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	182
7	Ayr	Ayrshire	176
8	Stirling	Stirling	167
9	Newquay	Cornwall	163
10	Chester	Cheshire	162
11	Scarborough	Yorkshire	158
12	Eastbourne	Sussex	155
13	St Ives	Cornwall	141
14	Norwich	Norfolk	140
15	Halifax	Yorkshire	136
16	Canterbury	Kent	134
17	Plymouth	Devon	127
18	Dawlish	Devon	122
19	Alnwick	Northumberland	121
20	Whitby	Yorkshire	120
21	Bournemouth	Dorset	117
22	Inverness	Highland	116
23	Ipswich	Suffolk	113
24	Falmouth	Cornwall	113
25	Guildford	Surrey	107
26	Skegness	Lincolnshire	104
27	Sevenoaks	Kent	101
28	Dartmouth	Devon	100
29	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	99
30	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	99
31	Hastings	Sussex	95
32	Winchester	Hampshire	92
33	Exmouth	Devon	92
34	Dorchester	Dorset	87
35	Horsham	Sussex	87
36	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	84
37	Bridlington	Yorkshire	83
38	Lichfield	Staffordshire	82
39	Ashton-under-Lyne	Greater Manchester	82
40	Haverfordwest	Pembrokeshire	81
41	Bridport	Dorset	81
42	Sidmouth	Devon	80
43	Shaftesbury	Dorset	80
44	Moffat	Dumfries & Galloway	80
45	Amesbury	Wiltshire	80
46	Folkestone	Kent	79
47	Chichester	Sussex	78
48	St Austell	Cornwall	73
49	Bromsgrove	Worcestershire	73
50	Yate	Gloucestershire	73

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.