Press Release: 00038

28 February 2006

Newquay surfs up the property ladder

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

Newquay surfs up to lead the board in this month's UK Property Shop Home Location Index. Is this the sea calling, or rumours that Jamie Oliver is about to open a new restaurant on the beach? Second class honours go to Cambridge, with rural centres Hereford and Banbury reminding us how good it can be to move to the country.

Moving Location Index (Towns) - February 2006

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Newquay	Cornwall	73
2	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	69
3	Hereford	Herefordshire	65
4	Banbury	Oxfordshire	64
5	Canterbury	Kent	63
6	Inverness	Highland	61
7	Weymouth	Dorset	56
8	Norwich	Norfolk	56
9	Sidmouth	Devon	51
10	Blandford Forum	Dorset	50
11	Bodmin	Cornwall	50
12	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	48
13	Chester	Cheshire	45
14	Southport	Merseyside	45
15	Stafford	Staffordshire	44
16	Maidstone	Kent	44
17	Wirral	Merseyside	44
18	Paignton	Devon	44
19	Blackburn	Lancashire	43
20	Kendal	Cumbria	43
21	Hastings	Sussex	42
22	Aberystwyth	Ceredigion	40
23	Wakefield	Yorkshire	38
24	Bath	Somerset	36
25	Carlisle	Cumbria	36
26	Chorley	Lancashire	34
27	Harrogate	Yorkshire	33
28	Nuneaton	Warwickshire	33
29	South Shields	Tyne & Wear	33
30	Taunton	Somerset	32
31	Winchester	Hampshire	32
32	Stourbridge	West Midlands	32
33	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	32
34	Abergavenny	Monmouthshire	32
35	Clevedon	Somerset	32
36	Watford	Hertfordshire	31
37	Hove	Sussex	31
38	Tain	Highland	31
39	Tenby	Pembrokeshire	31
40	Biggleswade	Bedfordshire	31
41	Honiton	Devon	31
42	Selby	Yorkshire	30
43	Blackpool	Lancashire	30
44	Petersfield	Hampshire	30
45	Looe	Cornwall	30
46	Andover	Hampshire	30
47	Guernsey	Channel Islands	30
48	Hebden Bridge	Yorkshire	30
49	Troon	Ayrshire	30
50	Brampton	Cumbria	30

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.