Raffle House vs Omaze (2026): Odds, Costs & Cash Rules

Reviewed by the PrizeDrawsDaily team · Prices and terms last checked on 20 October 2026

Raffle House vs Omaze, in short: Omaze guarantees that someone wins the house however many entries it sells, and pays a fixed £1 million to charity. Raffle House sells cheaper entries in bulk and lets the winner take cash instead of the home, but if a draw misses its sales target the winner receives 70% of the net ticket money rather than the house. Neither caps the number of entries, so neither can tell you your odds before you buy.

We checked everything below against both operators' websites and terms on 20 October 2026. PrizeDrawsDaily is an independent UK directory. We don't run either draw, and prices change from one draw to the next, so check the live page before you pay.

Raffle House vs Omaze: what's the difference?

Raffle House and Omaze are separate UK companies selling the same kind of product: a dream-home prize draw with a free postal entry route. Once you've entered, they differ most on what the winner gets if sales fall short and on how the charity is paid.

The sections below go through those rows one at a time.

How much does it cost to enter Raffle House and Omaze?

At the bottom end they cost the same: £15 buys 20 entries at either site. Raffle House gets cheaper faster as you spend more, falling to about 32p a ticket on its £95 bundle, while Omaze's largest one-off bundle works out at about 47p an entry.

When we checked, Raffle House's £20, £45 and £95 bundles were each £5 below their usual price, and every London ticket bought before 31 October came with a matching ticket for its next draw, a £1m Cornwall home, at no extra cost. Both operators also run "Early Bird" prizes for people who enter before a set date. Omaze's Cotswolds Early Bird, £100,000 in cash and a Mercedes G-Class, closes to online entries on 8 November.

Subscriptions cut the price per entry at both. Omaze charges £10, £15 or £25 a month for 65, 100 or 200 entries into every house draw, with bonus cash-draw entries included. Raffle House charges £15, £30, £50 or £75 a month for 100, 250, 600 or 1,200 tickets, with a discount on the first month.

Before you compare those prices, remember that a cheaper entry only buys a better chance if the draw doesn't sell more entries. Your odds depend on how many entries the whole draw sells, and neither operator tells you that in advance.

What are the odds of winning Raffle House or Omaze?

You can't know before you enter, because neither draw has a maximum number of entries. Omaze is the only one of the two to publish a figure: it says the average customer typically has "an approximately 1 in 1.4 million chance of winning the grand prize each month". Raffle House says only that, based on its past draws, its odds sit "in between the People's Postcode Lottery and the National Lottery".

Omaze's figure is an average for customers who typically hold many entries, worked out from past draws. It isn't the chance of one entry, so don't set it beside a per-ticket figure.

Uncapped draws are the exception. Every one of the 991 live draws on our board on 20 October 2026 carried a published maximum number of entries, which lets you work out your worst-case odds before paying. That includes house draws. The last two on our board both had caps:

• 7Days Performance, £600k home and BMW X5: £1.99 a ticket, capped at 599,999 entries, closed 27 September 2026. One ticket was at worst a 1-in-599,999 chance, and a 1-in-1,000 chance cost £1,194.
• BOTB, £1.2m home in London Zone 1: £1 a ticket, capped at 2,699,999 entries, closed 1 July 2026. A 1-in-1,000 chance cost £2,700.

You can't do that sum for Omaze or Raffle House, because the bottom half of the fraction doesn't exist until the draw closes. If knowing your odds matters, our guide to the best-odds competition sites ranks capped draws by entry cap, and the house draws board lists capped property draws whenever one is running. On 20 October 2026, none was.

What happens if a house draw doesn't sell enough tickets?

Omaze guarantees a winner in all its house draws, along with the £1 million charity donation, whatever the sales. Raffle House awards the house, or its full cash value, only if paid entries reach a minimum. If they don't, the winner gets a Cash Prize of 70% of the entry fees, after Raffle House's operating costs and minus the charity donation. Of everything in this comparison, this is the gap most likely to change what a winner walks away with.

Raffle House sets that minimum at paid entries worth the prize's advertised cash value once the charity donation and operating costs are taken off. Free postal entries and entries bought with promotional credit don't count towards it.

What we couldn't find is how often the minimum has been met. Raffle House's past-draws page lists ten Dream Home winners since March 2025 with their quotes, but not what each was paid. Its homepage features its three most recent Dream Home winners, and each is captioned "took the cash", without saying whether that was the full-value cash alternative or the reduced Cash Prize.

Both companies have signed the government's voluntary Code of Good Practice for Prize Draw Operators. Clause 2.5 of the code says operators should not provide "a prize of lower value due to low ticket sales". Raffle House's terms, as published on 20 October 2026, still contain the 70% Cash Prize clause (clause 5.4).

Omaze's rules also let it replace the house, but only with "a prize of comparable or greater value", such as a cash sum equal to the house's value plus the furnishings and running-cost money.

Can you take cash instead of the house?

At Raffle House, yes. If the draw reaches its minimum, the winner chooses between the home and a cash alternative that its terms describe as "commensurate to the advertised amount" and its site describes as the property value in tax-free cash. At Omaze, no: the winner can't exchange the grand prize for cash, although the house is transferred to them outright and they're free to sell it.

Omaze's Cotswolds prize also comes with the furnishings (valued at £168,000), Stamp Duty and reasonable conveyancing costs paid, and £250,000 in cash paid in five instalments over four years: £75,000 when the house transfers, £50,000 on each of the first three anniversaries and £25,000 on the fourth. Omaze itself puts the running costs of a typical Omaze house at £20,000 to £40,000 a year, so check that figure before you plan to live in one. Raffle House says its London home is valued at £2.3m including furnishings and Stamp Duty, with legal fees covered.

Raffle House describes its cash alternative as tax-free, and UK prize-draw winnings aren't subject to income tax whichever operator you win with. Owning or selling a house afterwards can bring other taxes into play, which our guide to tax on prize draw winnings covers.

How do you enter Raffle House or Omaze for free?

Both offer free postal entry with the same chance of winning as a paid entry, and both send postal entries to the same scrutineer, Civica Election Services in London. Raffle House needs a free online account first and accepts one entry per envelope. Omaze takes a postcard or letter and sets no limit on postal entries.

Raffle House: create a free account, then write your full name, date of birth, phone number, email address and the competition title on a blank sheet of paper. The details must match your account. Post it with a first- or second-class stamp to Raffle House Postal Entry, Civica Election Services, 33 Clarendon Road, London N8 0NW. You can send one entry per envelope and up to 25,000 per Dream Home draw a month, and each must be received and processed by 5pm four business days after the draw closes.

Omaze: on a postcard or letter, write your full legal name, home address (no PO boxes), city, postcode and email address (a phone number is optional), and post it to the address in that draw's rules. For the Cotswolds house it is Omaze Scrutineers - Cotswolds or Cotswolds VII House Draw, Civica Election Services, 33 Clarendon Road, London N8 0NW, with postal entries due by 5pm on 24 November 2026, two days after online entries close.

A postal entry costs you a stamp and the time to write it. Our free postal entry guide explains how the route works across UK draws.

How much of your ticket goes to charity?

Raffle House donates 10% of entry fees, after its operating costs, to a charity you choose at checkout from around 30 partners, and pays it after the draw, typically once its year-end accounts are filed. Omaze guarantees a fixed £1,000,000 to the draw's named charity (Cats Protection for the Cotswolds house) whatever the sales, and its rules state that guarantee rather than a share of each entry.

In practice no more than £1 of every £10 spent at Raffle House reaches charity. At Omaze, the share of your £10 depends on total sales, which aren't published before the draw. Omaze says it has raised over £100 million for UK charities. Neither draw is a charity lottery: Omaze's own small print says its draws are "not a charity raffle, house or cash raffle or house or cash lottery but a prize draw".

Are Raffle House and Omaze legit and legal?

Yes. Both are active UK companies on Companies House, both run draws with a genuine free postal route (the feature that keeps a paid prize draw lawful under the Gambling Act 2005), and both appear on the government's list of signatories to the voluntary prize draw code. Neither operates as a licensed lottery, and neither needs to.

• Raffle House Ltd, company number 10928240, incorporated 22 August 2017, registered office in London EC1V. Its Dream Home and Early Bird draws are conducted by Civica using random-number software, and its terms say it is a member of the Property Redress Scheme.
• Omaze UK Limited, company number 12056935, incorporated 18 June 2019 (named Omaze Limited until August 2021), registered office in Altrincham, Cheshire. Winners are picked by a random number generator from all eligible paid and postal entries.

Both are open to UK residents aged 18 or over, and both cap paid spending at £500 a month, with £250 on a credit card. Omaze also lets you set your own limit to £0, and Raffle House's caps apply per Dream Home draw.

A legitimate operator can still be poor value. Our verdict on Omaze is in is Omaze legit? and our Omaze review. We haven't yet put Raffle House through our review process, so how to spot a legit UK raffle site gives you the checks to run yourself, and are prize draws legal in the UK covers the legal background.

Raffle House or Omaze: which should you choose?

Choose Omaze if you want certainty that the house itself is the prize whatever happens to sales, along with a fixed charity donation. Choose Raffle House if you want more entries per pound and the option of cash, and you accept that an undersold draw pays a reduced Cash Prize instead of the home.

• Pick Omaze if the house is the point, you want the outcome guaranteed in writing, and you're happy paying more per entry for that. Budget for the running costs if you'd live there.
• Pick Raffle House if you'd take the cash anyway, you buy bigger bundles or subscribe, and you're comfortable that the full prize depends on sales.
• Pick neither if you want to know your odds before you pay. Capped draws let you do that sum, and our guide to best-odds competition sites compares them.

For the wider field, see our best win-a-house raffle sites, the Omaze alternatives list, and Omaze vs BOTB if a car is also on your list.

18+ only. Both sites let you set a monthly spending limit, so set one before you start and treat any entry as entertainment rather than an investment. If it stops being fun, BeGambleAware offers free, confidential support.

FAQ

Is Raffle House the same as Omaze?

No. Raffle House is run by Raffle House Ltd, a London company incorporated in 2017, and Omaze's UK draws are run by Omaze UK Limited, incorporated in 2019 and registered in Cheshire. Both run dream-home prize draws with free postal entry, but they set different rules on cash alternatives, undersold draws and charity donations.

Which has better odds, Raffle House or Omaze?

Neither can say before a draw closes, because neither caps the number of entries. Omaze says its average customer has roughly a 1 in 1.4 million chance of winning the grand prize each month, while Raffle House says its odds fall between the People's Postcode Lottery and the National Lottery. Raffle House entries cost less each in larger bundles, but a cheaper entry only improves your odds if the draw doesn't sell more of them.

Does Raffle House actually give away the house?

Only if paid ticket sales reach a minimum linked to the advertised value. Then the winner chooses between the home and a cash alternative. If sales fall short, the winner receives a Cash Prize of 70% of the entry fees after operating costs, minus the charity donation, instead of the house.

Does Omaze offer a cash alternative?

No. The winner can't exchange Omaze's grand prize for cash, but the house is transferred outright with Stamp Duty and conveyancing paid, so the winner can sell it. Omaze can itself substitute a prize of comparable or greater value, including a cash sum equal to the house's value.

Is Raffle House legit?

Yes. Raffle House Ltd (company number 10928240) is an active UK company incorporated in 2017. Its Dream Home draws are run by the independent scrutineer Civica, it offers free postal entry, and it has signed the government's voluntary Code of Good Practice for Prize Draw Operators.

Is Raffle House regulated by the Gambling Commission?

No. Like Omaze, Raffle House runs prize draws with a free postal entry route, which keeps them outside the Gambling Act's definition of a lottery, so they don't need a Gambling Commission licence. It has signed the government's voluntary prize draw code and says it is a member of the Property Redress Scheme.

Can you enter Raffle House and Omaze for free?

Yes. Both accept free postal entries with the same chance of winning as a paid entry. Raffle House needs a free online account and one envelope per entry, while Omaze accepts a postcard or letter sent to the address listed in each draw's rules.