So, your house has been on the market for a year, and is currently on at Knight Frank for £875,000.
What do you do?
Take a pair of scissors to the price, obviously.
Or you could decide to raise the price to £1m and sell it via a raffle.
Which is what retired teacher turned hat-maker Patricia Hamilton is doing with her “very unique” property near Bristol.
We see Knight Frank, who have had it since June, describe it as “extremely flexible” – which is usually estate agent speak for ‘blimey, this is odd’.
But what of Patricia’s own odds? Remote, we’d say.
She will need to sell 500,000 tickets to meet her £1m target – and she hopes the raffle will be concluded inside six months.
We think that’s probably a tall order given that she’d have to sell several thousand tickets a day to almost 1% of the population.
The winner – if there is one – will have Stamp Duty paid for them.
https://www.winmyhouse.online/
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67086443.html
Comments (2)
Pill, Pill, I love thee still,Even though I’m leaving ‘ words made famous by Adge Cutler and the Worzels all those years ago.
Good that Pill has a property for sale but I wonder what the ASA will think of a vendor stating her house is ‘valued at over £1 million’. Who did the valuation and why value it at that amount now unless of course there is more land/and/or additional buildings now to that being offered by Knight Frank for a year at £875K.
I wish the owner good luck but suspect she will not get what she wants even though initial publicity will catch the media attention.
It never works
he won’t sell enough tickets and will be left with a situation that people want their money back
These schemes always backfire