Press Release: 00028

1 August 2003

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - August 2003

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Blackpool	Lancashire	274
2	Exeter	Devon	212
3	Lancaster	Lancashire	187
4	Bath	Somerset	182
5	Dundee	Angus	180
6	Cardiff	Cardiff	151
7	Weymouth	Dorset	142
8	York	Yorkshire	141
9	Newquay	Cornwall	135
10	Truro	Cornwall	130
11	Eastbourne	Sussex	128
12	Swansea	Swansea	125
13	Plymouth	Devon	123
14	Bridlington	Yorkshire	122
15	Brighton	Sussex	116
16	Canterbury	Kent	113
17	Selby	Yorkshire	113
18	Liverpool	Merseyside	110
19	Alnwick	Northumberland	110
20	Bournemouth	Dorset	106
21	Sevenoaks	Kent	104
22	Loughborough	Leicestershire	102
23	St Andrews	Fife	102
24	Ilfracombe	Devon	102
25	Hexham	Northumberland	90
26	Oban	Argyll & Bute	90
27	Fort William	Highland	90
28	Chester	Cheshire	85
29	Stirling	Stirling	85
30	Inverness	Highland	83
31	Dorchester	Dorset	82
32	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Staffordshire	82
33	Swindon	Wiltshire	81
34	Cromer	Norfolk	81
35	Bodmin	Cornwall	81
36	Hawick	Scottish Borders	80
37	Minehead	Somerset	80
38	Durham	Durham	79
39	Kirkintilloch	Dunbartonshire	72
40	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	71
41	Penzance	Cornwall	71
42	Ludlow	Shropshire	71
43	Falmouth	Cornwall	71
44	Keswick	Cumbria	70
45	Looe	Cornwall	70
46	Hebden Bridge	Yorkshire	70
47	Barmouth	Gwynedd	70
48	Chesterfield	Derbyshire	65
49	St Austell	Cornwall	64
50	Beverley	Yorkshire	63

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.