Yes, that headline is factually accurate.
Dunstan Low, a entrepreneur with an internet marketing business, bought Melling Manor in 2011 and spent close to £125,000 renovating it to a modern standards. However, Low's business began to falter and mortgage repayments began to pile up.
Eventually, he put the house up for sale for £850,000 before it was eventually dropped to £650,000 before he came up with an idea. A raffle.
Low is raffling off 500,000 tickets at £2 a piece and has received entrants from as far away as Australia and the US. The price of the ticket covers legal fees, stamp duty and last-minute jobs to help with renovation and making the house perfect.
The house itself comes with a G Fridge Freezer, Bosch built in microwave and oven, a Bosch wine cooler, 5 ring gas hob, servo activated kitchen drawers, corian worktops, glass splash backs, lovely original oak floorboards and cast iron radiators, 6 bedrooms, 2 with walk in wardrobes, one master bedroom with en suite and dressing room, a family bathroom with Fired Earth one piece bath tub, a Fired Earth chrome and porcelain sink, pearl splashback, Fired Earth toilet, stone flooring and a Fired Earth walk through shower.
If you're doing the maths, that means Low could potentially raise £1,000,000 on the house. The scheme is working - he's already sold 182,980 tickets as of March 19th and raised £365,960 so far.
You can buy a ticket at winacountryhouse.com with the deadline for the raffle of August 1st, 2017.
