Who Won the Omaze Yorkshire House? The £4m Winner and What the Odds Were

Omaze's £4 million Yorkshire house has been won by Malcolm, a 58-year-old father of two from Newbury, whose winning entry cost £30 as part of his Omaze subscription. The win was announced on 6 November 2026, a week after the draw on 29 October.

He gets the six-bedroom, Grade II listed house in Little Ouseburn mortgage-free, plus £155,000 of furnishings and £250,000 in cash paid in instalments. Below: what he actually won, roughly how many entries he beat, and how those odds compare with the house draws still open this month.

Who Won, and What They Get

According to the Yorkshire Post, which ran the announcement with Omaze's photographs, Malcolm grew up in London, co-founded a fine art and antiques shipping company near Heathrow, and had never been to Yorkshire before he saw his new home. He told the paper that the only thing he remembered winning before was a goldfish at a fair when he was 12.

The prize, as set out in Omaze's Yorkshire IV Experience Rules:

• The house, valued by Omaze at £4,000,000, with a lake, a tennis court and a two-bedroom cottage.
• Furnishings valued at £155,000.
• £250,000 cash in five instalments: £75,000 when the house is transferred, £50,000 on each of the first three anniversaries, and £25,000 on the fourth. Omaze only recently switched from a lump sum, and we explain what it costs a winner in Omaze's £250,000 instalments explained.
• Stamp duty and legal fees paid by Omaze.

The charity partner, Blood Cancer UK, says it will receive £4.5 million from the draw, well above the £1 million Omaze guarantees every house draw charity.

How Many Entries Did He Beat?

Omaze does not publish entry numbers. Its rules say only that your odds depend on how many eligible entries it receives. But the charity figure gives a rough way in.

In November 2023, Fundraising.co.uk reported that under Omaze's model the charity receives £1.70 of every £10 spent on house draw entries, or 17%. If that split still applies, a £4.5 million donation means roughly £26.5 million was spent on paid entries.

Omaze sells entries in bundles that get cheaper per entry as you spend more. On its current Cotswolds draw, £10 buys 15 entries and £150 buys 320. That is between 1.5 and 2.1 entries per pound, which puts the Yorkshire pool somewhere around 40 to 56 million paid entries, before free postal entries are added.

Treat that as an estimate, not a fact: the 17% figure is three years old, subscriber pricing may differ, and Omaze has not confirmed any of it. It does make the scale clear, though. One winner out of tens of millions of entries is a very long shot, whatever the size of the prize.

What £25 Buys: Omaze vs Capped House Draws

The difference with most other house draws is that they cap the number of tickets, so you can work out your worst-case odds before paying. Here is what £25 gets you in the three biggest capped house draws we are tracking that close this month, against an Omaze draw the size of Yorkshire. The capped odds assume every ticket sells.

Draw	Ticket	£25 buys	Max tickets	Odds (worst case)	Closes
Kilted Competitions: 3-bed house + £10k, or £200k cash	£5	5	99,999	1 in 20,000	30 Nov, 9:10pm
7 Days Performance: £725k home + Volvo XC40	£1.99	12	699,999	1 in 58,333	29 Nov, 8:45pm
BOTB: £1.25m Hampshire house	£1	25	3,149,999	1 in 126,000	30 Nov, 11:59pm
Omaze, Yorkshire-sized pool (estimate)	bundles	40	no cap	about 1 in 1 million to 1 in 1.4 million	Cotswolds: 22 Nov

So even with Omaze's generous bundles, £25 buys roughly eight to seventy times better odds in a capped house draw. The prizes are smaller, of course: BOTB's house is worth less than a third of Omaze's, and Kilted's is a new-build with a £200,000 cash option. You are trading prize size for a real chance.

When we checked, the capped draws were partly sold: about 1.98 million of BOTB's 3.15 million tickets, 232,000 of 7 Days' 700,000 and 28,700 of Kilted's 100,000. If they don't sell out, your odds are better than the table shows. Plug any of them into the odds calculator to see your own chances.

Value: Where Does Your Pound Go?

Odds are half the story. Our Value Ratio (VR) measures how much an operator collects for every £1 of prize value if a draw sells out, and lower is better. The market median across the 3,126 live draws from 114 operators we track today is 2.50, and the median ticket costs 99p.

• Kilted: VR 2.50 against its £200,000 cash alternative, bang on the market median.
• 7 Days Performance: VR 2.79 against its £500,000 cash alternative.
• BOTB Hampshire: VR 3.50 against its £900,000 cash alternative, the priciest of the three.

Omaze has no VR, because there is no cap: the more entries it sells, the more it collects for the same house. That is also why its charity donations can be so large. How Value Ratio works explains the maths in full, and you can compare operators on the 7 Days Performance and BOTB pages.

What's Next at Omaze

Omaze's next house is the £4 million Cotswolds VII home, supporting Cats Protection. Online entries close on 22 November, postal entries must arrive by 24 November, and the winner is drawn on 26 November. The early bird prize, £100,000 plus a Mercedes G-Class, is drawn on 12 November. Dates, bundles and the free postal route are in our Cotswolds house draw guide.

The Honest Take

Congratulations to Malcolm. Someone has to win, and a £30 subscription entry going all the way is exactly the story Omaze sells. But one winner in tens of millions of entries means an Omaze ticket is best treated as a charity donation with a dream attached. If you want odds you can actually calculate, capped house draws give you a known worst case before you pay, and our best odds league table ranks every live draw by value so you can see where your money goes furthest.