Press Release: 00036

1 October 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - October 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	307
2	Hastings	Sussex	212
3	Brighton	Sussex	204
4	Chester	Cheshire	199
5	Oxford	Oxfordshire	196
6	Sevenoaks	Kent	192
7	Inverness	Highland	185
8	York	Yorkshire	159
9	Bath	Somerset	146
10	St Austell	Cornwall	143
11	Winchester	Hampshire	136
12	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	134
13	Wetherby	Yorkshire	131
14	Weymouth	Dorset	126
15	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	121
16	Penrith	Cumbria	120
17	Halifax	Yorkshire	119
18	Blackpool	Lancashire	119
19	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	116
20	Plymouth	Devon	115
21	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	115
22	Bridport	Dorset	111
23	Keswick	Cumbria	110
24	Exeter	Devon	109
25	Eastbourne	Sussex	109
26	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	106
27	Paisley	Renfrewshire	104
28	Stourbridge	West Midlands	103
29	Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	103
30	Stirling	Stirling	102
31	Kendal	Cumbria	102
32	Wadebridge	Cornwall	101
33	Falmouth	Cornwall	101
34	Scarborough	Yorkshire	95
35	Hartlepool	Durham	92
36	Ayr	Ayrshire	92
37	Newquay	Cornwall	91
38	Canterbury	Kent	91
39	Fort William	Highland	91
40	Whitby	Yorkshire	90
41	Lyme Regis	Dorset	90
42	Isle of Skye	Scottish Islands	90
43	Wells	Somerset	90
44	Oban	Argyll & Bute	90
45	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	81
46	Bridlington	Yorkshire	81
47	Bicester	Oxfordshire	80
48	Swanage	Dorset	80
49	Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	74
50	Dorchester	Dorset	74

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.