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Elite Competitions have been around for several years now. They first featured on Loquax back in January 2019 after they'd appeared on an edition of Dragon's Den. Since then they've grown and...
Win A House Competitions
Loquax has been writing about win a house competitions since 2007. Our blogs cover the good and the bad of this particular genre of online prize draw. Visit our Win A House section for the latest property prize draws and winner information.
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Pay to enter prize draw sites, sometimes referred to as raffle sites or simply competition sites, continue to grow. Despite what seems to be an ever increasing saturated...
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Way back in 2020 when win a house competitions really started to snowball, a renovated cottage located between the Llyn Peninsula and Snowdonia National Park, North Wales...
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A slightly earlier update this month because they'll be another advent themed update in a week or two. Every year we make a note of putting together how Loquax makes...
Tramway Path have annouced that their latest win a house competition...
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Back in June a new win a house platform emerged onto the market. Called
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Popular win a house prize draw platform Tramway Path have concluded their latest giveaway and created another winner. On 25th April 2024, Jade from London discovered that...
In the same week that Bounty Competitions turned over 72,000 tickets for a 4 bedroom property in Aberdeen and drew the winner in less than 48 hours, we also say goodbye to...
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Setting up and running a win a house prize draw isn't a guarantee of success. In fact history is littered with individuals and platforms who mistakenly thought that the...
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Search for prize draws and competitions on Google, Facebook or Instagram these days and you're more than likely to come across promotions from multiple pay to enter prize...
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Earlier in 2023 a new property prize draw platform launched called Win My Home. To kick start their aims at establishing themselves in a difficult sector they offered...
Win a House competitions have evolved considerably since Dunstan Lowe gave away Melling Manor in a pay to enter prize draw. We've seen everything from a Tiny House through...
Despite the decline in the number of property prize draws that are now running the sector continues to thrive albeit in a different way. During the Covid Pandemic the...
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At the height of the win a house competition boom a number of platforms tried to establish themselves as the goto places for individuals to "raffle" their own properties...
Back in 2018 a win a house competition site called Home Competitions launched. Describing itself as "The UK's number one property website" it initially provided details of...
Just when we starting to think that perhaps house raffles were dead on their feet, a few shoots of life start to appear. Since 2017 we've seen hundreds of homeowners try...
There may not be that many win a house competitions around at the moment, but the last week or so has seen a bit of "purple patch" with respect to media coverage. Firstly...
After the flurry of activity in 2020 and the early part of 2021 which saw over 200 properties put up as prizes, the win a house sector has really slowed down. This year...
Although there aren't many new win a house prize draws being launched in recent months there are still a number from 2021 running. A handful of these are or at least were due to close at the end...
During 2020 and 2021 win a house competitions were incredibly popular and sparked the launch of a number of raffle platforms hoping to cash in on that popularity. Prize Villas, Visit Central Italy...
In November 2019 Better Chances, a house prize draw site, launched and offered entrants the chance to win a three bedroom property in Borehamwood. Tickets cost £11 but despite running for almost a...
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In August 2020 Forest Side Home became the latest property to try the win a house prize draw format. Like many...
2021 has seen almost as many property raffles launched as in 2020. Last year saw 25 of the 92 competitions launched result in a property winner however in 2021 we're only on 11 winners, although...
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At the end of June a flurry of property competitions came to a conclusion. Amongst these were the high profile sites Raffle House and Win My Dream Home. Both platforms have announced winners and...
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At the end of May a new win a house competition was launched on a raffle site called Cathedral Competitions. The prize on offer is a £500,000 home in a a sought after village in Kent and the site...
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The success of win a house competitions over the last year has seen the emergence of a number of platforms hoping to cash in on the interest in property raffles. These services help home owners...
There's just a couple of weeks to go before the end of June and that will see around a dozen current win a house competitions come to a conclusion. This batch includes high profile properties...
2020 was a purple period for win a house competitions with 25 property winners created from competitions that launched during that year. 2021 however hasn't been quite as successful with just...
Another week and another win a house controversy is simmering away in the background. Win My Dream Brighton Home...
The latest Raffall win a house competition to close has failed to create a new property winner. Win an Aylesbury...
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Whilst 2020 has been a strange year for most, in the win a house competition world it's been a pretty decent year. Over 80 properties have been offered as prizes and 15 of them have resulted in...
Advent competitions have been keeping us occupied recently but over in the win a house section of Loquax there's been quite a lot of activity too. We've had extensions, the date moving kind and...
It's been a while since our last win a house round up - in fact almost two months now. So what has been happening over the last few weeks? Well at time of writing there...
Following our recent server move we've now time to start updating things on the site. For example as we're about to add the 100th property to our win a house section (post 2017) we've deceided to...
Last week we gave prospective win a house competition organisers a reality check with the news that some promotions don't always go to plan. However this week there's some more positive news in...
Apologies for yet another win a house blog but there's a lot going on in this particular area at the moment. The number of new properties being put up for 'raffle' has...
The number of win a house competitions in 2020 has shot up in recent weeks. Bouyed by the success of a number of competitions including one on the Raffall platform, other home owners have been...
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How would you react if you got a lucky winning phone call to tell you that you're the new owner of a half a million pound property? Watch the video below and you'll discover how the latest winner...
Whilst we expected home owners to copy Dean Tate and use Raffall as a platform for their own home competitions we most certainly didn't expect
Following the success of the first win a house competition on the Raffall platform it wasn't a surprise to see another one follow. What was a surprise was that five other house competitions would...
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The first win a house competition that launched on the Raffall platform has reached it's conclusion. Dale Tate put his four bedroom detached property plus a 2017 Volvo...
The winner of the latest home competition to complete, Win My Dream Home, has been drawn. In an event shown live on Facebook the winner was announced as Alison Bellamy from Telford. Alison, a key...
On the 10th April Nigel and Jane Chaloner put their property, Grafton House, up as a prize in a brand new house raffle. For just £2 a ticket entrants at Win My Dream Home gave themselves the...
When Win A Country Home announced their property competition winner on St Valentine's Day the world was a completely different place. However the remaining two home raffles had already committed...
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Congratulations to Win A Country Home for becoming the latest property competition to actually complete the process. On the 14th February the owners of Shrubbery Farm in Shropshire held a live...
2020 could well be a good year for win a house competitions. Last week we told you that Win A Country Home were all set to conclude their competition. Hoping to follow in their footsteps are...
The excitement surrounding win a house competitions died down considerably during 2019. So much so that it looked as though 2020 would see them vanish altogether from The UK. A mixture of
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Win A House raffles have taken another twist with the news that Millionaire Mansion has closed early. This competition was originally earmarked to close in November 2018. However the promoters...
The Win A House sector of competitions is rapidly dwindling. At time of writing we have just 3 (soon to be 4) open competitions. Of these 3 all of them have extended their closing dates beyond...
The surge of win a house competitions has all but come to an abrupt halt in recent months. The excitement of new competitions has been replaced with disappointment, frustration and questions...
Another day, another win a home controversy. This time it's Win A Mega Home in the spotlight. This competition ended on 31st December 2018 and offered entrants the chance to win a £3million...
The end of 2018 saw a number of win a house competitions reach their closing date. Unlike the Millionaire Mansion folks who decided to keep their competition going, all those that closed have...
Given that Win The House Of Your Dreams and Win Your Dream Home have recently faced the "wrath" of Advertising Standards, you'd think that other competitions would take note. After all you don't...
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Back in September 2017 the website Win The House Of Your Dreams joined the throng of home competitions online. The prize, Reve House, is located on the banks of The River Thames at Caversham...
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Back in March, Shamus Fitzsimons closed their Win Your Dream Home competition. When we wrote our review of this competition we noted that the promoter didn't indicate the values of expenses and...
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Since 'Win A Country House' launched in February 2017, around 30 other home competitions have opened and concluded. A further 20 are ongoing! Despite the number of...
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Despite just one property being won in the recent spate of win a home competitions, these kind of contests continue to make the news. There are new competitions, frustrations with ones that have...
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It's been over a year since the current trend of running win a house competitions started. This means that we're now entering a period where a number of raffles that...
2017 will go down as the year that win a house competitions made their comeback. It all kicked off with Melling Manor which resulted in Marie Seager from Warrington taking ownership of the...
Our look at house competitions definitely attracts quite a bit of attention. The latest comes from a brand new service which hopes to take advantage of the current interest in win a house raffles...
Earlier this month we told you about a handful of new additions to the Win A House competitions list here on Loquax. Entry to these competitions varies from £2 to £6 - which when compared to the...
The thing with "Win A House" competitions is that once one starts then a multitude of others follow. It happened back in 2008 and it's happening again in 2017, albeit a...
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Back in February we told you about a brand new win a house competition. The prize was a six-bedroomed Melling Manor near Kirkby Lonsdale, valued at over £800,000 and the competition was the...
Although the 'win a house' competition craze hasn't quite hit the dizzy heights of a few years ago, there are signs that other people are now viewing it as a viable option for offloading their...
This week we had planned to tell about another "win a house" competition that had just launched. The prize was a £1.3million home in Blackheath and the entry cost was set...
Over the last couple of weeks we've noticed an uplift in interest in "win a house" competitions. The reason for this comes down to a guy called Marco Robinson who is giving away a £120,000...
It's like blast from the past week here on the Loquax Blog. Firstly we were back writing about automated competition entry services and now we're going to be back about win a house competitions...
There seems to be an unwritten rule about win a house competitions! When Jason isn't anywhere near the computer then something new and win a...
Win a House competitions could be about to become hot news again with the launch of a brand new site. Poachers Retreat is the latest home on...
It's been a while since we blogged about the various Win a House competitions that exist and in...
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After almost a year since they appeared on The BBC and over six months since they sold the final ticket and The Gambling Commission stepped in to investigate the competition, The Wilshaws of...
Good news for everyone who bought a ticket for Devon Property with Fishing Competition! We told you a week or so ago that there was potentially light out at the end of the tunnel, well that light...
It's dragged on longer than a dodgy Eastenders plotline but could there be light at the end of the tunnel for The Wilshaws and their win a house competition Win a Devon Property with Fishing. It's...
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Despite only selling just over 4000 tickets Winalondonpad.com have become the first Win a House competition to create a home winner...
According to This is South Wales another Win a House competition has fallen foul of the "skill element" issue that has dogged these kind of competitions. Sharon Craig was raffling her home for £10...
2008 was most certainly the year of the win a house competition. We very nearly saw the first house won via these kind of competitions only...
Whilst the 46000 entrants of the Oldborough Estate competition await the findings of the Gambling Commission another, and perhaps potentially more high profile "win a house" competition has...
On October 12th we told you that the Gambling Commission were starting to take an interest in
On October 16th the winner of the Oldborough Estate in Devon should be announced. This may spark further interest in the other win a house competitions that have popped up on the back of the...
As the price of houses slide and home sales decline, the win a House phenomena continues to gather pace! Jumping on the bandwagon this week is a brand new site called Win a Development. In this...
As expected, following on from the Oldborough Estate success (which...
Finally, after a last minute hiccup, the Devon Retreat win a house competition has...
After years of "win a house" competitions never reaching the required number of tickets, could it be that the
Win a House competitions often pop up online and few (if any) ever get to a point where someone actually wins the house! Perhaps though that trend is about to be bucked with
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