Press Release: 00090

1 January 2010

Moving Location Index (Counties) - December 2009

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

Moving Location Index (Counties) - December 2009

Rank	County	Points
1	Devon	104
2	Cumbria	88
3	Channel Islands	81
4	Dorset	77
5	Aberdeenshire	70
6	Fife	66
7	Norfolk	53
8	Sussex	48
9	Oxfordshire	47
10	Lincolnshire	45
11	Highland	42
12	Ceredigion	42
13	Perth & Kinross	40
14	Cornwall	36
15	Somerset	34
16	Scottish Islands	31
17	Argyll & Bute	30
18	Dumfries & Galloway	26
19	County Londonderry	24
20	Cardiff	21
21	Nottinghamshire	18
22	County Tyrone	15
23	Scottish Borders	12
24	Bedfordshire	12
25	Bridgend	12
26	County Antrim	11
27	Isle of Man	11
28	Torfaen	11
29	Shropshire	10
30	Monmouthshire	10
31	Dunbartonshire	10
32	Flintshire	10
33	Isle of Wight	10
34	Staffordshire	9
35	Surrey	8
36	Lancashire	7
37	Gwynedd	3
38	Caerphilly	2
39	Hampshire	2
40	Durham	1
41	County Armagh	1
42	East Lothian	1
43	Vale of Glamorgan	1
44	Falkirk	1
45	Neath & Port Talbot	1
46	Renfrewshire	1
47	Worcestershire	-2
48	Swansea	-6
49	Northamptonshire	-6
50	Herefordshire	-8

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.