Press Release: 00025

1 April 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - April 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Inverness	Highland	288
2	Winchester	Hampshire	235
3	Brighton	Sussex	232
4	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	199
5	Dundee	Angus	186
6	Ipswich	Suffolk	185
7	Bournemouth	Dorset	180
8	Eastbourne	Sussex	169
9	Halifax	Yorkshire	168
10	Oxford	Oxfordshire	156
11	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	148
12	Newton Abbot	Devon	134
13	St Austell	Cornwall	134
14	Weymouth	Dorset	125
15	Stirling	Stirling	124
16	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	120
17	Hull	Yorkshire	117
18	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	116
19	Barnsley	Yorkshire	115
20	Blackpool	Lancashire	113
21	Truro	Cornwall	113
22	Newquay	Cornwall	113
23	Bridlington	Yorkshire	112
24	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	107
25	Lancaster	Lancashire	106
26	Maidstone	Kent	103
27	Penrith	Cumbria	103
28	St Andrews	Fife	102
29	Skipton	Yorkshire	101
30	Alnwick	Northumberland	101
31	Belfast	County Antrim	100
32	Bridport	Dorset	100
33	Chester	Cheshire	98
34	Chichester	Sussex	94
35	Hexham	Northumberland	94
36	Selby	Yorkshire	93
37	Northallerton	Yorkshire	92
38	St Ives	Cornwall	92
39	Liskeard	Cornwall	90
40	Colchester	Essex	85
41	Guildford	Surrey	84
42	Ayr	Ayrshire	84
43	Plymouth	Devon	83
44	Exmouth	Devon	82
45	Falmouth	Cornwall	82
46	Barnard Castle	Durham	81
47	Axminster	Devon	80
48	Salisbury	Wiltshire	76
49	Stoke-on-Trent	Staffordshire	75
50	York	Yorkshire	74

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.