Lottery for luxury house in Belgravia

21st November 2009 1:15 PM

When you think about playing the lottery you often think of the lavish property you could buy with your huge jackpot windfall, if you ever won it.  However a couple in London have effectively cut out the middle man by putting their home up as a prize in their very own lottery.  They are offering people the chance to buy tickets in a lottery for a luxury house in Belgravia, one of the most exclusive areas in London.

Michael and Kathleen Forster have made lottery news headlines by wanting to give their house away to somebody, who otherwise couldn’t afford to spend £5 million on a Belgravia home.  They are selling lottery tickets for a chance to win their home for £50 each and players can buy as many tickets as they like.  Imagine the thrill of becoming the new owner of one of only three freehold properties in one of the most sought-after streets in London.

The property, which is being given away in this unusual lottery draw, has five bedrooms and even a staff flat.  As we said this is an unusual lottery but not unique.  In 2003 a woman in a small town in Austria gave away her home in a lottery and in March 2009 an IT manager won a £400,000 London flat from buying two £50 tickets.  However not all of these home lotteries have been plain sailing.  Last year a couple from Devon operated a lottery to give away their £1.15m estate but the Gaming Commission intervened, stating that the competition was illegal because the questions were too easy, making it a lottery, rather than a game of skill.

This latest ‘house lottery’ for the luxury Belgravia home meets all requirements of the Gaming Commission and if the target amount of tickets isn’t reached, the winner will received 60% of the prize fund, meaning that somebody could still walk away with over £1.5 million.  However, for the chance to see your lottery numbers come in and the chance to win millions and millions of pounds which you can spend on any house that you want you can buy tickets for any of the major world lottery draws right here at WorldLottery.net.

Written by Lucy Lotto

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