New Omaze London House - roll up, roll up!

[ShyMaryEllen]

https://omaze.co.uk/pages/london-v

What do we think, Omazers?

I'll be back when I've had a better nose around.

Enter draw for the first time ever. Live zone 6 and have always said I want to retire into London. All the floors may be an issue for that but will do for the first few years!

I've entered. We moved out of London a few years ago and it was a mistake, would love to move back! I might even try and get my old job back, a two minute stroll over to Guy's 😁

Ds could come and live back with us so we could stop subbing his extortionate London rent. DH would be able to get a decent job not the crap that's available where we are now. I could regularly get to Borough Market before the TikTokers descend. Win win for everyone!

LOL at the parking obsession though. What on earth do you think you'd need a car for?

I walk through Borough Market most mornings on the way in to the office - can confirm early weekday mornings is the best time.

@Ginmonkeyagain I'm envious. It's nice to have a beach on our doorstep where we are now, but God, I miss London. There's just nowhere like it.

As much as I love the idea of living here, the stairs would start to annoy me as would vertical living. I’d be selling and buying each of my three DCs a home, paying off my mortgage and retiring to travel.

And that’s where the house dream usually falls down isn’t it, as in reality what a lot of us want is an upgrade in our current location!

which is why most of those omaze articles essentially come back to…you’re probably better off playing the lottery for about the same odds 😂

The best bit is imagining the life you could have somewhere random though. It's most unlikely to happen, so you don't have to worry about the inconvenient bits. The cash that goes with the house would allow most people to live there for a while without ending to even get a job, and if they weren't settled when it looked like starting to run out they could sell and go home with a good profit.

Mostly I think I would stay for a while (100% in the case of this one, but it would be a short while in the current Scotland one) then sell up. It just doesn't make sense for me to have a £4m house when my adult children are paying most of their income in mortgage or rent, and I've got a nice enough house already. I'd indulge myself on the South Bank for a while and love every minute, but I'd rent out my tired old gaff so I had it to come back to when the dream ended.

Agree with this. The money they give you would actually pay off the final bit of our current mortgage so we’d have two homes mortgage-free: running costs would be all we’d need to pay out of current salary. With the London one, we’d share it with the kids while at uni and starting out with careers and when they were wanting to live independently, perhaps not in London, maybe 10 years down the line, we’d sell one of the houses and set them both up. I can’t really see the disadvantages for us… but we haven’t a hope in hell of winning, sadly 😭

It's awful.
Ugly outside and boring inside.
Yes l know it's London.
My 5 bedroom bungalow with indoor pool is much much nicer and cost me just little over 1 million here in West Yorkshire.
With the East coast an hour and half away .
The Dale's and North Yorkshire moors too.
Plus the Pennies and only 45 mins to York.

Even the Perth one - that would be lovely from about mid April to oooh end Sept possibly into Oct weather depending…and then I’d have it on the market for the following Spring…once I’d done recreating every boat themed book! Three men in a boat, wind in the willows, swallows and amazons etc.

you can’t say there aren’t downsides to living anywhere at times, horses for courses.

love it, want it. I wouldn’t give up my current house for it but I’d definitely be spending a lot of weekends there, catching up with old friends, eating my way around borough market, training my binoculars on the shard… one can but dream.

council tax is just so mental, differences between areas and the bandings are ridiculous. I live about 20 mins walk south from this house, in a flat around a quarter of the size on a far far grottier road and I’m also Southwark band E - how the 2 properties can be the same is beyond me!

anyway think I will enter, though borough market is overpriced crap these these days and it is a bit noisy up there I’d bloody love more space in the area I live, I generally love living in London where I’ve lived with kids for over 10 years without a car. You really don’t need one in London and can hire one when you want for trips out that can be done by train

Love it, great location, I’ve entered!

Would my cats be able to go out? How many hours would a cleaner have to do a week?😀 I would move into it the next day and let my nieces come stay with me so they can get their careers going.

You could build a cattery on the back with the cash? And we have a largish house, but have a cleaner 2-3 hours a week for £19/hr and it’s probably more than we need, so you’d be fine!

It’s less than I pay right now! Oh how I’d steal this house if I had a chance!!

I've bought some tickets.

Someone has done the maths, as far as is possible, and you've a better chance of winning an Omaze house (roughly 1 in 2,350,000 for a £10 entry, i.e. 15 tickets, and 1 in 1,175,000 for a £20 entry, 30 tickets) than of winning the National Lottery Jackpot (1 in 45 million, admittedly for a smaller stake).

Obviously an Omaze house is worth far less than the Lotto jackpot, but the odds of winning are much better.

Well, just to be sure, @Chersfrozenface I've done both lottery and omaze this week! Fingers crossed.

Ditto. 😁

I have been eyeing this up for weeks now! I have just entered. I live a couple of miles away. Not sure I would live there but would definitely rent it out and do my own house up with the money. Teenage DD thinks she should be able to live there. Err no!

I've scoured the pics and the video, how does one enter the house? Is it off to the side?

I've blimmin entered the draw. Just gorgeous.

Through the side gate and through a side entrance/porch.