After months trying to sell their home, Bromley couple Graham King, 55 and Pamela Rutter, 56, decided to run a house competition instead. Their goal: sell at least 23,400 tickets at £30 and give away their house valued at £650,000. Unfortunately, after launching their house competition earlier this month, the Gambling Commission stepped in to close it down on 13 January.

A new house competition recently kicked off on Dream Home Competition, with a modern £500,000 town house near Marbella in Spain's Costa del Sol up for grabs for £10. Players need to answer 3 questions correctly to enter the competition and there are currently 4 other properties to be won on the website.

Taylor Wimpey are giving away a fabulous £110,000 home in their City Vizion development in Newport. The winner will live mortgage free in this new property located near the new University of Newport campus.

This Christmas the Daily Mail is offering its readers a chance to win a charming Dream Cottage worth £325,000 for free by collecting passwords printed daily in the paper over the next few weeks. The thatched Daily Mail Dream Cottage looks fantastic, but where is it located?

It's that time of the year again with details of the new Daily Mail Dream Christmas Cottage competition announced this weekend. As usual, Daily Mail have picked a beautiful thatched cottage located in a small country village. The Grade-II listed property is valued at £325,000 and could be yours for free simply by collecting 21 different passwords printed in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday every day between November 19th and December 16th, 2011.

Recent findings have revealed that where you live in the UK can greatly impact on the cost of home insurance and contents insurance from one area to the next, with Guernsey and Jersey experiencing the biggest increase and decrease respectively in the price of home insurance.

Park Leisure are giving away a brand new luxury static caravan holiday home this summer at one of their 5-star Leisure Parks in the UK. The winner will own a new caravan home worth £40,000 set amongst some of the most beautiful locations in the UK.

The location of the Daily Mail Dream Cottage is always a source of interest as the tabloid paper usually doesn't provide many details until the competition has ended. To save you the trouble of searching through forums and discussion boards, here are some details thanks to some input from our members. If you don't want to read any further, the 2011 Dream Cottage is located in Redgrave in Norfolk.

This summer's Daily Mail Dream Cottage competition kicked off today and runs until 16 September. Up for grabs is a beautiful Grade-II listed thatched cottage located in Norfolk, worth £350,000. One lucky reader could win this fabulous prize simply by collecting 21 differently dated passwords printed in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday between today and September 2nd. You could either buy a copy of the paper or get them online to take advantage of the free entry route.

Martell are giving away a home in the Cognac region this summer. Drinkers are invited to purchase a special promotion bottle of Martell VS cognac for a chance to win a "luxury" holiday home worth €200,000.

The Daily Mail Beach Chalet promotion to win a £160,000 beach home in Praa Sands in Cornwall closed on 22 April 2011. Each day between 5 March and 13 April, a different password was printed in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. As soon as they have been published, you can get the full competition results here.