{"id":135767,"date":"2023-04-04T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/too-good-to-be-true-what-it-is-really-like-to-win-a-3m-dream-home\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:19:06","slug":"too-good-to-be-true-what-it-is-really-like-to-win-a-3m-dream-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/too-good-to-be-true-what-it-is-really-like-to-win-a-3m-dream-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Too good to be true? What it is really like to win a \u00a33m dream home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nCompanies that offer lottery-like wins \u2013 houses, cars and cash prizes \u2013 have taken off recently. Is their success connected to the cost-of-living crisis?If someone approached you on the street and told you that, for just a tenner, you could win the kind of house that would cause Kevin McCloud to collapse into a puddle of adjectives and help raise millions of pounds for charity, you would probably ask what the catch was. But that improbable offering is Omaze\u2019s core business.Since launching in the UK in April 2020, the organisation has been running prize draws in which, for a relatively small amount of money, you can be in with the chance to win a multimillion-pound dream house. When the draw ends, a chosen charity partner gets the lion\u2019s share of the profits. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/apr\/04\/too-good-to-be-true-what-it-is-really-like-to-win-a-3m-dream-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too good to be true? What it is really like to win a \u00a33m dream home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Companies that offer lottery-like wins \u2013 houses, cars and cash prizes \u2013 have taken off&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-zjN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32946,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-have-a-dream-job-but-the-commute-is-a-nightmare-what-should-i-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":135767,"position":0},"title":"I have a dream job but the commute is a nightmare \u2013 what should I do?","date":"November 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I have given up my hobbies and am tired a lot of the time, but working from home isn\u2019t an optionTwice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38853,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hospice-charity-locked-into-fundraising-deal-that-misleads-public\/","url_meta":{"origin":135767,"position":1},"title":"Hospice charity &#039;locked into fundraising deal that misleads public&#039;","date":"December 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Charity Commission says Hospice Aid UK partnership with Euro DM means as little as 2% of donations given as grantsA hospice charity signed a deal with a direct marketing agency that could have resulted in hospices receiving less than 2% of \u00a35.4m raised from the public, according to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":74774,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/millennials-give-more-generously-and-carefully-to-charity-study-finds\/","url_meta":{"origin":135767,"position":2},"title":"Millennials give more generously and carefully to charity, study finds","date":"December 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Charity Commission says young people are more likely to do research on charities before donating than their eldersMillennials are more generous when giving to charities at Christmas and they are more likely to research their chosen charities before donating, according to research by the Charity Commission.Over half of respondents\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7064,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/so-sainsburys-which-charity-will-bag-the-money-from-all-those-5ps\/","url_meta":{"origin":135767,"position":3},"title":"So, Sainsbury\u2019s, which charity will bag the money from all those 5ps?","date":"March 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r When the charge for carrier bags was introduced I understood the proceeds would go to good causes. 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