Press Release: 00030

1 February 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - February 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Winchester	Hampshire	319
2	Brighton	Sussex	280
3	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	234
4	Cheltenham	Gloucestershire	233
5	Guildford	Surrey	230
6	Hull	Yorkshire	196
7	Weymouth	Dorset	192
8	Newquay	Cornwall	175
9	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	170
10	Inverness	Highland	160
11	Canterbury	Kent	158
12	Truro	Cornwall	157
13	Plymouth	Devon	153
14	Hastings	Sussex	149
15	Worcester	Worcestershire	145
16	St Andrews	Fife	145
17	Barnsley	Yorkshire	144
18	Dundee	Angus	143
19	Harrogate	Yorkshire	132
20	Belfast	County Antrim	129
21	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	127
22	St Albans	Hertfordshire	122
23	Dartmouth	Devon	120
24	York	Yorkshire	117
25	Chester	Cheshire	112
26	Banbury	Oxfordshire	112
27	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	110
28	Blackpool	Lancashire	110
29	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	105
30	Durham	Durham	104
31	Dudley	West Midlands	104
32	Clacton-on-Sea	Essex	103
33	Falmouth	Cornwall	103
34	Totnes	Devon	100
35	Dorchester	Dorset	96
36	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	96
37	Weston-super-Mare	Somerset	95
38	Bridport	Dorset	95
39	Sevenoaks	Kent	94
40	Corby	Northamptonshire	94
41	Wrexham	Wrexham	93
42	Alnwick	Northumberland	91
43	Wetherby	Yorkshire	83
44	Hitchin	Hertfordshire	83
45	Stoke-on-Trent	Staffordshire	82
46	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	82
47	West Malling	Kent	81
48	Windsor	Berkshire	81
49	Sidmouth	Devon	80
50	Cirencester	Gloucestershire	80

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.