Press Release: 00040

1 January 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - January 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	320
2	Bath	Somerset	278
3	Norwich	Norfolk	253
4	Blackpool	Lancashire	226
5	Loughborough	Leicestershire	225
6	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	212
7	Inverness	Highland	180
8	Canterbury	Kent	161
9	Weymouth	Dorset	157
10	Barnsley	Yorkshire	145
11	Dundee	Angus	138
12	Chester	Cheshire	137
13	Skipton	Yorkshire	131
14	Winchester	Hampshire	130
15	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	128
16	Lancaster	Lancashire	123
17	Hastings	Sussex	122
18	Cirencester	Gloucestershire	116
19	Bournemouth	Dorset	113
20	Chesterfield	Derbyshire	113
21	Penrith	Cumbria	113
22	Stratford-upon-Avon	Warwickshire	113
23	St Austell	Cornwall	113
24	Halifax	Yorkshire	112
25	Newquay	Cornwall	112
26	Scarborough	Yorkshire	110
27	Torquay	Devon	109
28	Exeter	Devon	104
29	Whitby	Yorkshire	100
30	Pocklington	Yorkshire	100
31	Stirling	Stirling	99
32	St Andrews	Fife	99
33	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	96
34	Elgin	Moray	95
35	Sevenoaks	Kent	94
36	Clitheroe	Lancashire	91
37	Ipswich	Suffolk	90
38	Looe	Cornwall	90
39	Hull	Yorkshire	86
40	Banbury	Oxfordshire	84
41	Paignton	Devon	83
42	Hexham	Northumberland	82
43	Wells	Somerset	81
44	Keswick	Cumbria	81
45	Aberdare	Rhondda Cynon Taff	81
46	Ashbourne	Derbyshire	81
47	Plymouth	Devon	80
48	Colchester	Essex	80
49	Bridport	Dorset	80
50	Yate	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.