Press Release: 00004

1 October 2005

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - October 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	104
2	St Albans	Hertfordshire	103
3	Plymouth	Devon	94
4	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	81
5	Cannock	Staffordshire	73
6	Burnley	Lancashire	63
7	Halifax	Yorkshire	56
8	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	55
9	Dunfermline	Fife	54
10	Abingdon	Oxfordshire	53
11	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	52
12	Bath	Somerset	52
13	High Wycombe	Buckinghamshire	52
14	Ayr	Ayrshire	50
15	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Northumberland	50
16	Herne Bay	Kent	50
17	Dundee	Angus	44
18	Barnstaple	Devon	43
19	Eastbourne	Sussex	43
20	St Austell	Cornwall	43
21	Paignton	Devon	42
22	Chorley	Lancashire	41
23	Thame	Oxfordshire	41
24	Alnwick	Northumberland	41
25	Lewes	Sussex	41
26	Inverness	Highland	40
27	Frome	Somerset	40
28	Market Harborough	Leicestershire	40
29	Hamilton	Lanarkshire	40
30	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	38
31	Swindon	Wiltshire	36
32	Bournemouth	Dorset	36
33	Harrogate	Yorkshire	34
34	Chesterfield	Derbyshire	34
35	Hereford	Herefordshire	33
36	Scunthorpe	Lincolnshire	33
37	Livingston	West Lothian	32
38	Weymouth	Dorset	32
39	Truro	Cornwall	32
40	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	32
41	Newbury	Berkshire	32
42	Rochester	Kent	32
43	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	32
44	Elgin	Moray	31
45	Guildford	Surrey	31
46	Taunton	Somerset	31
47	Yeovil	Somerset	31
48	Solihull	West Midlands	31
49	Ringwood	Hampshire	31
50	Bodmin	Cornwall	31

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.