Charity raffle

Seaside Beach Home Raffle ends 6 April!

Donate $50 to win a $1.5 million beach home in the beautiful town of Seaside, Florida. The Boys & Girls Clubs charity are running this special house raffle where you also get to pick a $1.5 million cash prize if you don't want the home. Entries...

Local couple win Northwest Indiana House Raffle

This year's Northwest Indiana House Raffle attracted 4,002 entries at $150 each, helping raise funds for St. Jude House and Southlake YMCA. The winners, local couple Ritchard and Debra...

Children's Wish Home Lottery

This year's Children's Wish Home Lottery offers you the chance of winning one of 14 showhomes in Saskatchewan, Canada, or $600,000 cash. On top of this, the...

3rd Annual Marin Dream House Raffle

Community Action Marin's Annual Marin Dream House Raffle is one of the most popular real estate raffles in California, and this year promises to be no exception. This year's house raffle launched yesterday,...

San Francisco Dream House Raffle winner

The winner of this year's San Francisco Dream House Raffle was finally announced, after receiving lots of interest from across California and beyond. Set up to benefit Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the charity...

Win a mountain home in Colorado

Rocky Mountain Home Raffle offers you the chance of winning a luxury $1 million ski home in Keystone at the Sanctuary. A...

Intact House Raffle property prize

Intact Raffle offers players a chance of winning a custom built home in Florida valued at $350,000 for only...

Jackson Hole Home Raffle

The Jackson Hole Home Raffle is set up to give away a three bedroom home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, appraised at $735,000 (as of August 2008). With all proceeds donated to charity, a maximum of...

San Francisco Dream House Raffle ending soon

The San Francisco Dream House Raffle gives players a chance of winning a $2.4 million home (or $1.8 million in cash) in return for a $150 ticket. Although the exact details of the property prize are not disclosed, it was built in...

Laguna Beach Home Raffle kicks off

The Ocean Institute has already run four Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffles in past years. This year's raffle kicked off today and runs until October, when one lucky person will win a stunning new home with...

Palm Springs Dream Home Raffle winners announced

The results of the 2009 Palm Springs Dream Home Raffle were drawn at DesertArc's campus in Palm Desert yesterday. Rudy Maus, from R. Palos Verdes, won the top prize: a $1.2 million Spanish-style...

Dream Big Raffle interview

Dream Big Raffle offers players a chance of winning a stunning $4.3 million 9,000 square foot property in Oakland Hills, California, in return for a $175 ticket! Alternatively, the winner of this...

How do house raffles work?

Win a house raffles are not new and in essence are a relatively simple concept. If it is legal to do so, in theory one can sell a property at the appraisal value by selling a fixed number of raffle tickets to the public. Once the...

What's so great about win a house raffles

Who doesn't dream of winning a house someday, for the price of a restaurant meal? While house raffles are not new and have been run by charities around the world for a number of years, recently with the sharp slowdown in the...

Win a multi-million dollar Phoenix home for charity

Michael Marin, owner of a luxury $3.5 million home on a golf course in Phoenix, is hoping to sell 176,000 raffle tickets at $25 apiece in support of local non-profit organization the Child...

Marin raffle to help address greater community needs

According to this article on the Marin Independent Journal, San Rafael-based non-profit agency Community Action Marin is struggling to cope with an increased demand for its services. When an unemployed East Bay...

Unemployed couple wins Marin Dream House Raffle

San Fransisco Bay Area website cbs5.com reports on the latest house raffle to have closed successfully, Marin Dream House Raffle in San Rafael. Organized to help support non-profit organization Community...

Air Force veteran raffles house to pay off mortgage

When 33-year-old Arizona Air Force veteran Heather Gray lost her job, like many others she faced possible foreclosure due to the debts she had accumulated. Instead, she decided to donate her home to a local charitable foundation,...

Are house raffles legal in the United States?

Although not a new phenomenon, win a house raffles have risen in popularity in the United States as homeowners explore new ways of "selling" their properties due to challenging market conditions. This has generated...

Getting your house raffle featured on TV

Organizing a successful win a house raffle requires a strong marketing campaign to reach out to as many potential players as possible. It goes without saying that getting your property raffle featured on television...

Can't sell your home? Raffle it!

With homeowners across the country struggling with tough real estate market conditions, it's no surprise some of them are turning towards alternative ways of selling their properties. A new trend that has emerged throughout the United States is to...

Raffles: real estate's latest game of chance

This article in the New York Times published today offers an interesting insight into some of the drivers behind house raffles. Backed by interviews of both homeowners that decided to run their own house raffles,...

House raffle brings charity back into profit

The Ocean Institute in Dana Point recently ran a successful house raffle offering players a chance of winning a $1.2 million house in return for a $150 raffle ticket. According to...

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