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Win a house: UK house raffles and their odds
Where you can win a house in the UK, how each house draw works, and what your chances really are.
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Odds are per ticket, based on the most tickets each draw can sell. See every live draw on the odds checker.
Best sites to win a house in the UK
Ranked from our monthly Top 15, showing only the sites that give away houses.
7Days Performance
Performance cars and motorbikes (typically refurbished to standard), tax-free cash, tech, watches and instant wins, plus occasional house draws. Prizes are stored at and collected from the Norfolk HQ, or delivered.
BOTB
Dream cars and supercars, dream homes and villas, watches, holidays, tax-free cash and instant wins. Car wins include free delivery, and servicing/insurance perks.
Omaze
A furnished, mortgage-free house each draw (recent prizes have exceeded £3m), plus early-bird and runner-up prizes of cash and cars alongside the main draw.
Raffle House
A furnished home each draw (recent prizes around £2m), with stamp duty and legal fees covered — or, when a draw is undersold, a cash prize in place of the property. Smaller cash prizes run alongside.
How house competitions work
House draws work differently from most competitions. The biggest ones do not cap the number of entries, so there is no fixed “1 in X” figure and your chance depends on how many entries are sold. Others sell a set number of tickets, which makes the odds easy to work out.
How to judge your chances
If a draw has a ticket cap, your odds are the tickets you hold divided by the cap. If it does not, look at how long the draw runs, how widely it is advertised and the value of the house. A £3m house on national TV will draw far more entries than a smaller regional draw.
What to check before you enter
Check whether the house comes mortgage-free, whether there is a cash alternative, who pays stamp duty and legal fees, whether bills or furniture are included, and what happens if the draw does not sell enough entries. Good sites set this out in their terms.
Questions people ask
What are the odds of winning a house in the UK?
For draws with a ticket cap, your odds are the tickets you hold divided by the cap. The biggest house draws have no cap, so their odds depend on how many entries are sold and cannot be known in advance.
Is winning a house tax-free?
UK competition prizes are not taxed as income. Check each site’s terms for stamp duty, legal fees and running costs, which vary between draws.
Can you take cash instead of the house?
Many house draws offer a cash alternative. The amount and conditions are in the draw’s terms.
Are house raffles legal in the UK?
Yes, when they are run as prize draws with a free entry route or a skill question. The sites listed above offer a free way to enter.
The three best-odds draws every Monday, free.