Press Release: 00064

7 April 2008

Moving Location Index (Towns) - March 2008

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

Moving Location Index (Towns) - March 2008

Rank	Town	County	Points
1	Scarborough	Yorkshire	146
2	Dundee	Angus	143
3	Brighton	Sussex	142
4	Shrewsbury	Shropshire	132
5	Carlisle	Cumbria	128
6	Inverness	Highland	120
7	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	113
8	Worcester	Worcestershire	112
9	Isles of Scilly	Cornwall	110
10	Chester	Cheshire	99
11	Truro	Cornwall	95
12	Belfast	County Antrim	93
13	Kingston upon Thames	Greater London	91
14	Jersey	Channel Islands	90
15	Oxford	Oxfordshire	89
16	Canterbury	Kent	89
17	Skegness	Lincolnshire	83
18	Aberystwyth	Ceredigion	74
19	Lincoln	Lincolnshire	72
20	Exeter	Devon	71
21	Wimborne	Dorset	70
22	Greenock	Inverclyde	67
23	Falmouth	Cornwall	66
24	Stirling	Stirling	65
25	Eastbourne	Sussex	64
26	Paignton	Devon	64
27	Elgin	Moray	62
28	Kendal	Cumbria	62
29	Southsea	Hampshire	62
30	Hartlepool	Durham	61
31	Weymouth	Dorset	59
32	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	58
33	York	Yorkshire	58
34	Newquay	Cornwall	58
35	Dorchester	Dorset	56
36	Ormskirk	Lancashire	55
37	Barnstaple	Devon	55
38	Totnes	Devon	54
39	Andover	Hampshire	53
40	Bournemouth	Dorset	52
41	Malvern	Worcestershire	51
42	Orkney	Scottish Islands	51
43	Llandudno	Gwynedd	51
44	Perth	Perth & Kinross	50
45	Bradford-on-Avon	Wiltshire	50
46	Steyning	Sussex	50
47	Arbroath	Angus	47
48	Farnham	Surrey	47
49	Chichester	Sussex	45
50	Plymouth	Devon	45

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.