Press Release: 00079

3 February 2009

Moving Location Index (Counties) - January 2009

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

Moving Location Index (Counties) - January 2009

Rank	County	Points
1	Somerset	159
2	Devon	121
3	Sussex	115
4	Channel Islands	113
5	Aberdeenshire	94
6	Cumbria	93
7	Fife	90
8	Oxfordshire	87
9	Staffordshire	72
10	Cornwall	71
11	Angus	69
12	Warwickshire	64
13	Isle of Man	64
14	Gwynedd	62
15	Pembrokeshire	54
16	Perth & Kinross	52
17	Monmouthshire	50
18	Ayrshire	50
19	Hertfordshire	46
20	Surrey	43
21	Ceredigion	41
22	Highland	40
23	Scottish Islands	31
24	County Londonderry	27
25	Worcestershire	23
26	Cambridgeshire	23
27	Tyne & Wear	19
28	Wrexham	16
29	Dumfries & Galloway	15
30	Scottish Borders	12
31	Inverclyde	11
32	County Armagh	11
33	County Fermanagh	11
34	Lincolnshire	9
35	Stirling	4
36	Blaenau Gwent	3
37	Denbighshire	2
38	Gloucestershire	-1
39	Moray	-3
40	Norfolk	-5
41	Vale of Glamorgan	-5
42	Merthyr Tydfil	-7
43	Shropshire	-7
44	Dunbartonshire	-8
45	Falkirk	-8
46	Renfrewshire	-8
47	Neath & Port Talbot	-9
48	Isle of Wight	-9
49	East Lothian	-18
50	Argyll & Bute	-19

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.