If you’ve ever wanted to buy a beautiful, eco-friendly house for just £25, this is an opportunity you are not going to want to pass up!
Timothy & Zoe Bawtree, whose semi-underground house in Cheltenham featured on Grand Designs in January this year, have decided that the best way for them to sell their house is to raffle it off, selling 46,000 tickets at £25 each. If you do the maths, you’ll realise that’s a cool £1m – of which 10% goes to a cancer charity – and which includes all the stamp duty and conveyancing costs.
The house itself has been valued at £895k and the winner will get not just the house, but all the furnishings and mod cons too! All the Bawtrees are taking are their personal effects, garden pots and furniture, and their kitchenware.
Being mainly underground, the house is very low-energy. As they say on their website:
As well as being fully insulated, it is heated by a ground source heat pump making it both economical to run and low maintenance. The house boasts what is one of the best HIPs ratings for energy efficiency in the town – famed worldwide for its architecture.
The house includes:
* 3 bedrooms (master with en-suite dressing room and wet room)
* Large contemporary spa room
* Family bathroom
* Open plan living space incorporating sitting room/dining room/kitchen
* Playroom/cinema room
* Study
* Utility room
* Decked patio area and terraced gardens
* Off road parking
All you need to do to enter the competition is answer this question:
And then pay up your £25! At the time of writing this, 6844 people have bought tickets and the competition’s only been open a few days, so I wouldn’t leave it too long if you’re interested! The deadline is 31st December 2008 and the draw will be made on New Year’s Day 2009 (if 46,000 tickets have been sold – if not, they will either extend the deadline by 3 months or the winner will receive all the money pooled to date, which right now stands at over £150k – not too shoddy!).
I’m going to enter, so wish me luck!