Press Release: 00054

3 July 2007

Sun shines on Skegness

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

Once again Aberdeen and Brighton have taken the top honours in the UK Property Shop 'Moving Location Index' for June, with Newcastle upon Tyne, Lincoln and Newquay also high up on people's wish list of favourite places to buy their next home.

Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast has been steadily rising up the rankings and now features regularly in the top ten. With its sandy beaches and reputation for sunny weather, it is easy to understand why so many people are thinking about living here.

In March 2005, Skegness took the top position as the best retirement place in the UK, based on a survey by Yours magazine of sixty likely towns, who looked at factors such as house prices, hospital waiting lists, crime rate, council tax, activities, weather and transport.

Until the arrival of the railway in 1875, Skegness was just a fishing village and small port. The town then expanded rapidly and eventually became the location of the first Butlins holiday camp, which was built in 1936 and is still there today, helping to make the town one of the most famous seaside resorts in the country, popular with generation after generation of visitors.

Skegness estate agents are offering flats for sale at less than £100,000 and mobile homes for around £50,000. If you want to go into business, a 25 bedroom hotel is currently being offered at well under £500,000.

Moving Location Index (Towns) - June 2007

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	263
2	Brighton	Sussex	215
3	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	187
4	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	169
5	Newquay	Cornwall	133
6	Eastbourne	Sussex	130
7	Skegness	Lincolnshire	123
8	Kingston upon Thames	Greater London	113
9	Guernsey	Channel Islands	110
10	Worcester	Worcestershire	109
11	Bath	Somerset	107
12	Weymouth	Dorset	103
13	Jersey	Channel Islands	101
14	Falmouth	Cornwall	86
15	Guildford	Surrey	82
16	Derby	Derbyshire	81
17	Selby	Yorkshire	80
18	Worthing	Sussex	76
19	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	75
20	Totnes	Devon	72
21	Midsomer Norton	Somerset	70
22	Winchester	Hampshire	67
23	Swindon	Wiltshire	65
24	Norwich	Norfolk	64
25	Chester	Cheshire	63
26	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Staffordshire	62
27	Boston	Lincolnshire	61
28	St Ives	Cornwall	61
29	Sevenoaks	Kent	60
30	Isle of Arran	Scottish Islands	60
31	Folkestone	Kent	58
32	Cumbernauld	Lanarkshire	57
33	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	56
34	Hereford	Herefordshire	55
35	Dorchester	Dorset	54
36	Clacton-on-Sea	Essex	53
37	Fleetwood	Lancashire	51
38	Whitehaven	Cumbria	51
39	Stourbridge	West Midlands	50
40	Warwick	Warwickshire	50
41	Perranporth	Cornwall	50
42	Isle of Skye	Scottish Islands	50
43	Ripon	Yorkshire	50
44	Scarborough	Yorkshire	47
45	Penzance	Cornwall	47
46	Bridlington	Yorkshire	44
47	Camborne	Cornwall	43
48	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	43
49	Kidderminster	Worcestershire	42
50	Hastings	Sussex	42

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.