Press Release: 00005

1 December 2004

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - December 2004

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	269
2	Exeter	Devon	190
3	Durham	Durham	150
4	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	137
5	Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	132
6	Lancaster	Lancashire	128
7	Bournemouth	Dorset	125
8	Inverness	Highland	123
9	Oxford	Oxfordshire	118
10	Hull	Yorkshire	117
11	Southend-on-Sea	Essex	114
12	Bridlington	Yorkshire	111
13	Dundee	Angus	109
14	Bath	Somerset	101
15	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	93
16	Brighton	Sussex	93
17	Canterbury	Kent	85
18	Truro	Cornwall	85
19	Worcester	Worcestershire	84
20	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	82
21	Chester	Cheshire	80
22	Isle of Skye	Scottish Islands	80
23	Monmouth	Monmouthshire	80
24	Wakefield	Yorkshire	76
25	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	74
26	Yeovil	Somerset	74
27	Barrow-in-Furness	Cumbria	74
28	Hastings	Sussex	72
29	Northallerton	Yorkshire	72
30	Weymouth	Dorset	71
31	Lichfield	Staffordshire	71
32	Devizes	Wiltshire	71
33	Harrogate	Yorkshire	66
34	Wrexham	Wrexham	66
35	Ludlow	Shropshire	61
36	Ashton-under-Lyne	Greater Manchester	61
37	Isle of Arran	Scottish Islands	60
38	Maidstone	Kent	59
39	Winchester	Hampshire	59
40	Blackpool	Lancashire	58
41	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	54
42	Ipswich	Suffolk	54
43	St Albans	Hertfordshire	53
44	Loughborough	Leicestershire	53
45	St Andrews	Fife	53
46	Norwich	Norfolk	51
47	Thame	Oxfordshire	50
48	Skegness	Lincolnshire	50
49	Malmesbury	Wiltshire	50
50	Morecambe	Lancashire	50

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.