Press Release: 00003

1 November 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - November 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	St Albans	Hertfordshire	177
2	Weston-super-Mare	Somerset	175
3	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	172
4	Hull	Yorkshire	162
5	Bath	Somerset	140
6	Brighton	Sussex	137
7	Sheffield	Yorkshire	127
8	Stirling	Stirling	125
9	Inverness	Highland	124
10	Chester	Cheshire	122
11	Oban	Argyll & Bute	120
12	Oxford	Oxfordshire	111
13	Dundee	Angus	103
14	Skipton	Yorkshire	102
15	Cirencester	Gloucestershire	92
16	Alnwick	Northumberland	90
17	Winchester	Hampshire	88
18	Salisbury	Wiltshire	87
19	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	82
20	Woodbridge	Suffolk	81
21	Swansea	Swansea	78
22	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	72
23	Barnstaple	Devon	72
24	Beverley	Yorkshire	72
25	Hereford	Herefordshire	71
26	Bridlington	Yorkshire	71
27	Malvern	Worcestershire	71
28	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	70
29	Eastbourne	Sussex	70
30	Dartmouth	Devon	70
31	Darlington	Durham	67
32	Braintree	Essex	63
33	Blandford Forum	Dorset	63
34	Plymouth	Devon	62
35	Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	62
36	Chippenham	Wiltshire	62
37	Dorchester	Dorset	62
38	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	61
39	Kenilworth	Warwickshire	61
40	Bradford-on-Avon	Wiltshire	60
41	Bicester	Oxfordshire	60
42	Cockermouth	Cumbria	60
43	Hungerford	Berkshire	60
44	Wetherby	Yorkshire	60
45	Kinross	Perth & Kinross	60
46	Port Erin	Isle of Man	60
47	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	58
48	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	53
49	Hythe	Hampshire	53
50	Bexhill-on-Sea	Sussex	53

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.