Press Release: 00070

11 March 2008

Moving Location Index (Counties) - February 2008

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

Moving Location Index (Counties) - February 2008

Rank	County	Points
1	Cornwall	431
2	Somerset	287
3	Dorset	267
4	Cumbria	175
5	Channel Islands	173
6	Lincolnshire	146
7	Oxfordshire	116
8	Tyne & Wear	111
9	Angus	111
10	Highland	105
11	Warwickshire	102
12	Argyll & Bute	91
13	Dunbartonshire	81
14	Scottish Islands	80
15	Ceredigion	78
16	Devon	75
17	Aberdeenshire	71
18	Wiltshire	69
19	Shropshire	69
20	Staffordshire	65
21	Herefordshire	57
22	County Antrim	53
23	Isle of Wight	50
24	Stirling	49
25	Norfolk	46
26	Dumfries & Galloway	44
27	Perth & Kinross	29
28	Pembrokeshire	28
29	Swansea	27
30	Vale of Glamorgan	23
31	County Armagh	23
32	Moray	19
33	Isle of Man	13
34	Scottish Borders	11
35	County Fermanagh	11
36	Lancashire	9
37	Wrexham	5
38	Denbighshire	2
39	Falkirk	2
40	Neath & Port Talbot	2
41	Inverclyde	2
42	Gwynedd	0
43	Midlothian	0
44	Ayrshire	-7
45	Worcestershire	-8
46	Torfaen	-8
47	Flintshire	-9
48	Bedfordshire	-12
49	Hertfordshire	-16
50	Merthyr Tydfil	-17

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.