The raffle to win a Manor House

Another competition here:
winyourdreamhome.co.uk/enter-contest/
£5 a ticket

Good luck to you rocketstop

It's been great reading everyone's opinions on the house !
MaizieD you asked what I'd do if I won ? Well I would sell the house for a cheap price, but first, I would invite family down, tell them to bring a sleeping bag and we'd have a nice party so everyone could say they stayed at 'My' manor house !!
Thanks for the link TizLiz it was interesting.
I was never bothered about losing £2 but I would want to be able to sell the house which was the reason for my original post ! Good luck to all you who have a go x

If you really do wish to enter there is a FREE postal entry oprtion too (I say free but obviously it would be the cost of your postcard and postage stamp)

Remember the old adage - if it looks too good to be true it probably is!

And if you sold it on (or rather, if you ever managed to sell it on!) you'd probably be liable for capital gains tax.

Just beat me to it Badenkate

Violette the gaming/competition laws are a minefield, even for a simple raffle. He is getting round them by offering a free entry route. This is why all the competitions that ITV run have a free entry (by post).

As it's in my favourite part of the country, with a short drive to one of the best seafood restaurants ever, my entry's been in for a while!

There is no tax on winnings in the UK Lewlew

I've just had a look at it and it looks cold and sounds 'echoey' so unless you're fairly well-heeled it could well become a millstone around your neck. I think I'll stick with my cosy little house.

If you win it, do you have to pay taxes on it as if it were winings?

And it's only one wing of it he's selling off!

How on earth would you re-sell it?

I haven't seen this but will look it up out of interest. I've always wanted to live in something fancy like a manor house but (and it's a big but) if he's having to sell it by this method it flags up an alarm.
What if this old house needs a lot of work? Is it damp? Does it have condensation? Does it need underpinning? etc, etc. And of course with it being Grade II listed this really makes me worry because it makes work expensive and 'specialist.' Sorry to sound like a wet blanket but winning it could well come with a heap of problems.

Thought about doing that once ,,,,,when I wanted to sell a house in the UK with a flat market ...thought of selling tickets for a raffle of £10 each ....then discovered for some reason it was illegal (probably tax or something !) I had reasoned that, at the time, several years ago, the house was worth 100,000 but if I was lucky I could sell more tickets and make a profit ! Bet it wouldn'at have worked for me though !!

No thanks. I couldn't possibly live in a semi!

For £2? all you lose is £2. Pitch in there.

in the small print it says if they dont raise enough for the house to be sold, they will pay out the cash to the winner minus 5% for admin... so that seems far enough....

248,617 + paid entries as of 12/04/17 so alnost half way to their minimum of 500,000

I suspect there is a minimum value of total ticket sales (so a minimum value to the house) and if this is not reached, there is no "sale."

If 180k+ are in then it seems a fair bet; someone has to win. If you're not in it you cannot win it.

I wonder what happens if not enough tickets are sold..... And I note that it's only the east wing?

Forgot to point out that there is a free entry route, the address is on the entry page

rocketstop www.loquax.co.uk/blog/competition-news/are-win-a-house-competitions-making-a-return-3099.htm this makes interesting reading

Lovely part of the country but the upkeep of the gardens alone would be exhausting!

What would you do with it if you won it, rocketstop?

Too far from where I want to be