Run a Competition

Many people are interested in the idea of running a prize competition or raffle to give away their home, as an alternative to selling it in the conventional manner. Running a competition implies an amount of planning and preparation to make sure it is successful, together with enough resources to carry out a successful marketing campaign. This section features all blog posts relating to running your own property competition.

New Covent Garden Soup Win a Farm Competition draws criticism

Over 265,000 people entered the New Covent Garden Soup company's competition for a chance to win a farm worth £500,000. The promotion, which was run in partnership with sister brand Farmhouse Fare on the back of a...

Bromley Prize Property Competition closed by Gambling Commission

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...

Win a luxury holiday home in Spain for £10

A new house competition recently kicked off on Dream Home Competition, with a modern £500,000 town house near Marbella in Spain's...

30% off Win a House summer sale

Throughout the month of August, we're running a special promotion offering 30% off all our services to house competition organisers. That includes promoting your competitions on our site; ticket promotions;...

Dream Home Competition to win a UK holiday cottage

You could win this house worth £1 million in Cambridgeshire for just £25. Surrounded by beautiful countryside, West View Cottage is a pretty 5 double bedroom property currently being used as a holiday cottage. It i...

What's wrong with UK house competitions?

A number of UK win a house competitions have struggled to take off in recent months. While we've seen winners in other countries, so far 2010 has been relatively quiet in the UK. Although new competitions are launched every month,...

Win a Sandbanks house draw to go ahead?

The winner of the Sandbanks Life win a house competition could...

Free to enter house competitions taking off

Winning a house free ranks at the top of pretty much everyone’s wish list. For years, companies and newspapers have used free house competitions as a powerful tool for marketing and promotions. However, this is u...

Announcing new fees for competition organisers

We've done a lot of work on the site over the last few months, adding new tools to help organisers promote their house competitions and raffles more effectively. While some of you are already familiar with some of these changes, over...

Gambling Commission issues new paper on UK house competitions

Just four days before the Wilshaws are due to draw the

Competitions Directory - launch offer extended by one week

If you're running your own house raffle or property competition, our house raffle and competitions directory can...

Connecticut house raffle laws under review

Just like in most other US states, Connecticut law currently does not permit homeowners to run house raffles. However, with the real estate market struggling to recover, the idea of changing home raffle law was...

PayPal clarifies its position on prize competitions

We recently wrote about UK property competition organisers facing lots of difficulties with PayPal's payment...

Introducing the Win a House Competitions Directory

We are pleased to finally introduce our new Property Competitions Directory. Given the difficulties encountered by a number of house competition organisers over the last few months, we have built this great tool to help them promote...

Grand Lake couple forced to halt house raffle

Jim and Becky Poe hoped to organise a raffle to give away their lakefront home in Grand Lake in the US state of Colorado. After selling between 3,500 to 4,000 tickets at $101 each, the couple planned to carry out the...

Win a House Competitions Directory: coming soon

We often get inquiries asking us to provide advice on promoting property competitions more effectively online. While this is only one aspect of the marketing of a house competition, it is often critical to achieve...

PayPal woes

House competition organisers in the UK haven’t had it easy lately, demonstrating just how careful one needs to be when organising a property competition. With quite a number having had to halt or cancel their competitions due to direct intervention b...

How do players compare property competitions?

In the UK, recent months have seen a proliferation of ‘win a house’ prize competitions, raffles and sweepstakes, offering an attractive alternative to either selling or buying a home the traditional way.In an ailing property market, the...

Further property competitions cancelled following the Devon house competition setback

With no satisfactory conclusion reached for the Devon property competition in the UK by the end of 2008, a number of similar competitions and raffles were cancelled or postponed at the end of the year. At the same...

Costs of running a win a house competition vs. selling your property

After years of unprecedented growth, experts agree that the

Gambling Commission warns homeowners about ‘house competitions’

Following a raft of new house competitions announced in the last few months, last week the Gambling Commission published a notice on its website urging homeowners to be aware of the rules surrounding games of skill...