Press Release: 00007

1 December 2003

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - December 2003

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Bath	Somerset	103
2	Norwich	Norfolk	82
3	Brighton	Sussex	81
4	Bournemouth	Dorset	77
5	Exeter	Devon	76
6	Huddersfield	Yorkshire	69
7	Chesterfield	Derbyshire	68
8	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	62
9	Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	61
10	Lancaster	Lancashire	52
11	Newquay	Cornwall	52
12	Leamington Spa	Warwickshire	51
13	Falmouth	Cornwall	51
14	Weymouth	Dorset	50
15	Ashbourne	Derbyshire	50
16	Marlow	Buckinghamshire	50
17	Keswick	Cumbria	50
18	Liverpool	Merseyside	49
19	Plymouth	Devon	43
20	Hastings	Sussex	43
21	Dorchester	Dorset	43
22	Beverley	Yorkshire	42
23	Ringwood	Hampshire	41
24	Market Harborough	Leicestershire	41
25	Teignmouth	Devon	40
26	Droitwich	Worcestershire	40
27	Bury St Edmunds	Suffolk	40
28	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	40
29	Todmorden	Yorkshire	40
30	Maidstone	Kent	37
31	Eastbourne	Sussex	37
32	Chester	Cheshire	36
33	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	36
34	Dundee	Angus	35
35	Durham	Durham	35
36	Dunfermline	Fife	33
37	Sheffield	Yorkshire	32
38	Canterbury	Kent	32
39	Falkirk	Falkirk	32
40	Chester le Street	Durham	31
41	Burton-on-Trent	Staffordshire	31
42	Greenock	Inverclyde	31
43	Neath	Neath & Port Talbot	31
44	Otley	Yorkshire	31
45	South Shields	Tyne & Wear	31
46	Bridlington	Yorkshire	30
47	Oswestry	Shropshire	30
48	West Bromwich	West Midlands	30
49	Northwich	Cheshire	30
50	Pembroke	Pembrokeshire	30

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.