Press Release: 00008

31 December 2005

Top university towns gain honours

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

According to the latest Home Location Index from UK Property Shop, favourite university cities Newcastle upon Tyne, Exeter and Dundee top the list of most popular places where people want to live in December 2005.

Moving Location Index (Towns) - December 2005

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	81
2	Exeter	Devon	80
3	Dundee	Angus	64
4	Weymouth	Dorset	52
5	Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	52
6	Bournemouth	Dorset	48
7	Salisbury	Wiltshire	43
8	Sheffield	Yorkshire	43
9	Taunton	Somerset	41
10	Winchester	Hampshire	41
11	Bognor Regis	Sussex	41
12	Jersey	Channel Islands	41
13	Beverley	Yorkshire	41
14	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Staffordshire	41
15	Burnley	Lancashire	40
16	Dumfries	Dumfries & Galloway	40
17	Norwich	Norfolk	37
18	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	33
19	Doncaster	Yorkshire	31
20	Penzance	Cornwall	31
21	Hereford	Herefordshire	30
22	Falmouth	Cornwall	30
23	Stowmarket	Suffolk	30
24	Loughborough	Leicestershire	30
25	Carmarthen	Carmarthenshire	30
26	Thornbury	Gloucestershire	30
27	Isles of Scilly	Cornwall	30
28	Inverness	Highland	25
29	Harrogate	Yorkshire	24
30	Chester	Cheshire	24
31	Ayr	Ayrshire	24
32	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	22
33	Eastbourne	Sussex	22
34	Hemel Hempstead	Hertfordshire	22
35	Southport	Merseyside	22
36	Truro	Cornwall	21
37	Witney	Oxfordshire	21
38	Abingdon	Oxfordshire	21
39	Falkirk	Falkirk	21
40	Sudbury	Suffolk	21
41	Macclesfield	Cheshire	21
42	Aylesbury	Buckinghamshire	21
43	Helston	Cornwall	20
44	Pudsey	Yorkshire	20
45	Market Drayton	Shropshire	20
46	Cannock	Staffordshire	20
47	Yeovil	Somerset	20
48	Mansfield	Nottinghamshire	20
49	Whitby	Yorkshire	20
50	Shetland	Scottish Islands	20

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.