Omaze Yorkshire House Draw 2026: Closing Date, Winner Announcement and Odds

Omaze's £4 million Yorkshire house draw is its fourth Yorkshire property and the latest in its Million Pound House series, this time raising money for Blood Cancer UK. Online entries close at midnight on Sunday 25 October 2026, the winner is drawn on 29 October and notified on 30 October.

Here is everything in one place: the key dates, what the winner actually gets (which has changed since previous draws), the free entry route, and the honest answer on your odds.

Yorkshire House Draw: Key Dates

	Date
Draw opened	17 September 2026
Online entries close	25 October 2026, 23:59
Postal entries must be received and processed by	27 October 2026, 5pm
Winner drawn	29 October 2026
Winner notified	30 October 2026

The dates come from Omaze's Yorkshire IV Experience Rules. Omaze usually announces the winner publicly some time after they have been verified and have agreed to publicity, so the name may not appear on the results page on the 30th itself.

What the Winner Gets

• The house, in the village of Little Ouseburn between York and Harrogate, valued by Omaze at £4,000,000. Press coverage describes six bedrooms, a lake and a tennis court, set in woodland. It is about 13 miles from York station, which is around two hours from King's Cross.
• Furnishings valued at £155,000.
• £250,000 cash, paid in instalments: £75,000 when the house is transferred, £50,000 on each of the first three anniversaries, and £25,000 on the fourth. This is new: previous house draws paid the £250,000 as a lump sum. We explain the change, and what it costs a winner, in Omaze's £250,000 instalments explained.
• Stamp duty and conveyancing: Omaze pays stamp duty land tax and reasonable pre-approved costs of transferring the property.

Omaze also gives a figure that deserves more attention than it gets: an estimated long-term rental income of £6,000 to £7,000 a month. That is £72,000 to £84,000 a year before costs, a gross yield of about 2% on a £4 million house. Big country houses are expensive to keep and hard to let at a price that reflects their value, which is why so many Omaze winners end up selling.

How to Enter for Free

Like every UK prize draw, Omaze has a free route, and postal entries go into the draw exactly like paid ones. Write your full legal name, home address, postcode, email address and optionally your phone number on a postcard or a sheet of paper, and post it to:

Omaze Scrutineers – Yorkshire IV House Draw
Civica Election Services
33 Clarendon Road
London N8 0NW

One entry per postcard or envelope, no limit on how many you send. A winning postal entry also gets any prize boosters on the Grand Prize. With the postal deadline on 27 October, anything posted now is very tight for Yorkshire, so if you are going the free route, the next draw is the one to aim for. Name the draw clearly on the card, or the entry can be rejected without you being told. Our guide to free postal entry covers the general rules.

What Are the Odds of Winning?

Nobody outside Omaze can tell you, and the rules say so directly: your odds depend on how many entries Omaze receives. There is no cap on tickets, so the pool simply grows until the draw closes.

You can get a feel for the scale, though. Each Omaze house draw guarantees its charity partner a minimum donation, reported as £1 million for this one, and Blood Cancer UK says its 2023 Yorkshire farmhouse draw with Omaze raised nearly £2 million in six weeks. The charity receives only a share of what is spent, and entries are sold in bundles that get cheaper per entry the more you buy, so the total number of entries in a draw like this almost certainly runs into the millions. Any precise figure for your chances would be a guess. We walk through what you can and cannot work out in Omaze house draw odds explained.

Missed It? What Comes Next

Omaze already has its next house open. The Cotswolds VII draw is for another £4 million home, with £168,000 of furnishings and the same £250,000 paid in instalments. Online entries close on 22 November 2026 and the winner is drawn on 26 November. Its early-bird prize, £100,000 cash plus a Mercedes G-Class, is drawn on 12 November.

Raffle House is also running a draw for a restored Edwardian house in north-west London, valued at about £2.3 million, with entry from £15.

The Honest Take

An Omaze draw is a donation with a dream attached, and that is fine on its own terms. What it is not is a good-odds bet, because the odds are uncapped and unknown when you pay. If you want a realistic chance at a prize, look for competitions that publish a fixed number of tickets: you can work out your odds exactly before you spend anything. The best odds league table ranks every live draw we track by Value Ratio, and the odds calculator will tell you what your money buys.