Press Release: 00076

18 November 2008

Moving Location Index (Counties) - October 2008

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

Moving Location Index (Counties) - October 2008

Rank	County	Points
1	Somerset	207
2	Channel Islands	192
3	Lincolnshire	137
4	Highland	108
5	Cornwall	100
6	Scottish Islands	70
7	Dumfries & Galloway	57
8	Warwickshire	53
9	Aberdeenshire	50
10	County Antrim	44
11	Dunbartonshire	41
12	Ceredigion	37
13	Oxfordshire	29
14	Pembrokeshire	25
15	Gloucestershire	23
16	Ayrshire	22
17	Hampshire	18
18	Hertfordshire	14
19	Staffordshire	13
20	Buckinghamshire	13
21	Cumbria	12
22	Angus	12
23	Monmouthshire	12
24	Isle of Man	12
25	Wrexham	12
26	County Fermanagh	11
27	County Armagh	11
28	Falkirk	11
29	Cambridgeshire	9
30	Perth & Kinross	9
31	Kent	7
32	Inverclyde	6
33	Devon	5
34	Moray	5
35	Carmarthenshire	5
36	Fife	3
37	Bridgend	3
38	Scottish Borders	3
39	Stirling	3
40	Torfaen	3
41	Rhondda Cynon Taff	2
42	Durham	1
43	Argyll & Bute	0
44	Denbighshire	0
45	Caerphilly	-3
46	Sussex	-5
47	County Tyrone	-5
48	Renfrewshire	-6
49	Tyne & Wear	-8
50	Powys	-9

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.