Press Release: 00033

1 May 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - May 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Truro	Cornwall	226
2	Canterbury	Kent	208
3	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	194
4	Plymouth	Devon	192
5	Stirling	Stirling	178
6	Kingston upon Thames	Greater London	175
7	Inverness	Highland	167
8	Exmouth	Devon	166
9	Brighton	Sussex	161
10	Exeter	Devon	159
11	Tavistock	Devon	155
12	Bournemouth	Dorset	153
13	Newquay	Cornwall	147
14	Falmouth	Cornwall	146
15	Lancaster	Lancashire	142
16	Yeovil	Somerset	136
17	Bridlington	Yorkshire	132
18	Epping	Essex	131
19	Ayr	Ayrshire	125
20	Alnwick	Northumberland	125
21	Halifax	Yorkshire	122
22	Eastbourne	Sussex	122
23	Weston-super-Mare	Somerset	119
24	Hastings	Sussex	116
25	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	114
26	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	113
27	Ludlow	Shropshire	110
28	Holt	Norfolk	110
29	Perth	Perth & Kinross	108
30	Hull	Yorkshire	106
31	Belfast	County Antrim	105
32	Windsor	Berkshire	102
33	Bridport	Dorset	102
34	Burnham-on-Sea	Somerset	102
35	Chester	Cheshire	100
36	Dartmouth	Devon	100
37	Ashburton	Devon	100
38	Bangor	Gwynedd	98
39	Swansea	Swansea	95
40	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	94
41	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	94
42	Hereford	Herefordshire	92
43	Jersey	Channel Islands	92
44	Oban	Argyll & Bute	92
45	Weymouth	Dorset	91
46	Bootle	Merseyside	91
47	Guernsey	Channel Islands	91
48	Cromer	Norfolk	91
49	Durham	Durham	90
50	Whitstable	Kent	90

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.