Press Release: 00029

1 September 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - September 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Brighton	Sussex	536
2	Plymouth	Devon	268
3	Weymouth	Dorset	265
4	Inverness	Highland	241
5	Norwich	Norfolk	236
6	Newquay	Cornwall	221
7	Whitby	Yorkshire	220
8	Hull	Yorkshire	196
9	Belfast	County Antrim	184
10	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	183
11	Winchester	Hampshire	182
12	Bath	Somerset	179
13	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	175
14	Bridlington	Yorkshire	169
15	St Austell	Cornwall	168
16	Canterbury	Kent	156
17	Lancaster	Lancashire	151
18	Halifax	Yorkshire	150
19	Hereford	Herefordshire	149
20	Dorchester	Dorset	145
21	Bridport	Dorset	142
22	York	Yorkshire	129
23	Bournemouth	Dorset	129
24	Blackpool	Lancashire	129
25	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	127
26	Poole	Dorset	126
27	Woodbridge	Suffolk	123
28	Skipton	Yorkshire	122
29	Wells	Somerset	120
30	Oban	Argyll & Bute	120
31	Scarborough	Yorkshire	118
32	Guildford	Surrey	117
33	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	116
34	Exeter	Devon	114
35	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	114
36	Chester	Cheshire	113
37	Keswick	Cumbria	111
38	Dawlish	Devon	110
39	Bognor Regis	Sussex	105
40	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	103
41	Worcester	Worcestershire	103
42	Chichester	Sussex	103
43	St Andrews	Fife	103
44	Durham	Durham	101
45	Haverfordwest	Pembrokeshire	97
46	Stirling	Stirling	95
47	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	94
48	Truro	Cornwall	93
49	Carlisle	Cumbria	93
50	Ipswich	Suffolk	92

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.