Press Release: 00020

1 August 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - August 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Brighton	Sussex	758
2	Norwich	Norfolk	461
3	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	440
4	Bath	Somerset	368
5	Weymouth	Dorset	278
6	Blackpool	Lancashire	278
7	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	271
8	York	Yorkshire	269
9	Plymouth	Devon	267
10	Hull	Yorkshire	258
11	Taunton	Somerset	232
12	Eastbourne	Sussex	229
13	Inverness	Highland	222
14	St Albans	Hertfordshire	210
15	Guildford	Surrey	205
16	Worcester	Worcestershire	190
17	Dundee	Angus	187
18	Exeter	Devon	183
19	Canterbury	Kent	182
20	Bournemouth	Dorset	176
21	Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	164
22	Newquay	Cornwall	161
23	Belfast	County Antrim	153
24	Newton Abbot	Devon	149
25	Lancaster	Lancashire	146
26	Truro	Cornwall	143
27	St Ives	Cornwall	143
28	Whitby	Yorkshire	142
29	Bridlington	Yorkshire	133
30	Chichester	Sussex	125
31	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	118
32	Stirling	Stirling	116
33	Derby	Derbyshire	115
34	Barnsley	Yorkshire	112
35	Halifax	Yorkshire	103
36	Wetherby	Yorkshire	101
37	Bridport	Dorset	101
38	St Andrews	Fife	101
39	Hebden Bridge	Yorkshire	101
40	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	100
41	Shetland	Scottish Islands	100
42	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	99
43	Ipswich	Suffolk	98
44	Oxford	Oxfordshire	96
45	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	93
46	Herne Bay	Kent	93
47	Selby	Yorkshire	92
48	Wadebridge	Cornwall	91
49	Cheltenham	Gloucestershire	90
50	Isle of Anglesey	Gwynedd	90

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.