Press Release: 00023

1 January 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - January 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Bath	Somerset	456
2	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	418
3	Brighton	Sussex	393
4	Oxford	Oxfordshire	343
5	Exeter	Devon	316
6	Plymouth	Devon	316
7	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	296
8	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	293
9	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	290
10	Chester	Cheshire	285
11	Dundee	Angus	279
12	York	Yorkshire	270
13	Blackpool	Lancashire	254
14	Canterbury	Kent	248
15	Bournemouth	Dorset	217
16	Stirling	Stirling	214
17	Hastings	Sussex	208
18	Sheffield	Yorkshire	195
19	Inverness	Highland	192
20	St Andrews	Fife	189
21	Hull	Yorkshire	181
22	Guildford	Surrey	165
23	Bridport	Dorset	161
24	Newquay	Cornwall	145
25	Barnstaple	Devon	144
26	Winchester	Hampshire	142
27	Eastbourne	Sussex	140
28	Chesterfield	Derbyshire	134
29	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Staffordshire	132
30	Cheltenham	Gloucestershire	128
31	Durham	Durham	126
32	Carlisle	Cumbria	126
33	Falmouth	Cornwall	122
34	Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	120
35	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	120
36	Barnsley	Yorkshire	119
37	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	118
38	Dorchester	Dorset	116
39	Scarborough	Yorkshire	116
40	Lancaster	Lancashire	115
41	South Shields	Tyne & Wear	113
42	Ryde	Isle of Wight	111
43	Hythe	Hampshire	111
44	Dunfermline	Fife	110
45	Perth	Perth & Kinross	110
46	Oban	Argyll & Bute	110
47	Belfast	County Antrim	103
48	Whitby	Yorkshire	101
49	Bridlington	Yorkshire	96
50	Malvern	Worcestershire	95

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.