Press Release: 00043

1 July 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - July 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Brighton	Sussex	598
2	Oxford	Oxfordshire	449
3	Bournemouth	Dorset	344
4	Plymouth	Devon	273
5	Hull	Yorkshire	245
6	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	238
7	Salisbury	Wiltshire	228
8	Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	222
9	Chester	Cheshire	217
10	Exeter	Devon	212
11	Norwich	Norfolk	208
12	York	Yorkshire	201
13	Weymouth	Dorset	201
14	Eastbourne	Sussex	197
15	Guildford	Surrey	196
16	Blackpool	Lancashire	190
17	Worcester	Worcestershire	190
18	Ipswich	Suffolk	173
19	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	170
20	Bath	Somerset	165
21	Winchester	Hampshire	160
22	Chichester	Sussex	159
23	Inverness	Highland	151
24	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	150
25	Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	147
26	St Austell	Cornwall	147
27	Gloucester	Gloucestershire	142
28	Barnsley	Yorkshire	135
29	Penzance	Cornwall	131
30	Poole	Dorset	128
31	Scarborough	Yorkshire	125
32	Truro	Cornwall	124
33	Newquay	Cornwall	122
34	Halifax	Yorkshire	113
35	Skipton	Yorkshire	111
36	Bodmin	Cornwall	111
37	Banbury	Oxfordshire	106
38	Dunfermline	Fife	106
39	Canterbury	Kent	103
40	Dartmouth	Devon	102
41	St Andrews	Fife	100
42	Bridport	Dorset	100
43	Wirral	Merseyside	99
44	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	97
45	Durham	Durham	96
46	Chesterfield	Derbyshire	96
47	Stafford	Staffordshire	93
48	Newbury	Berkshire	93
49	Bude	Cornwall	90
50	Wetherby	Yorkshire	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.