The cottage in Ireland that costs 6 euros (and a lot of luck): so the online lotteries could change the real estate market
During the pandemic, the boom in prize competitions: participate little and those who sell can earn a lot. As I Imelda Collins, who has put the « tickets » to win his home, in Ireland in Ireland
From smartphones to sneakers, from players’ shirts to bottles of wine to villas. The cloister of the pandemic has favored The great success of online competitions: With everyone closed in the house and little to do, the possibility of winning great prizes, in the face of a small expense, has enlarged many.
The first to earn, however, is who sells: and this could also be the case of Imelda Collins, who organized A Ruffa for his home in Ireland – a cottage on less than a hectare owned out of the port city of Sligo.
The lottery offers a « turnkey » transaction for the winner of the winning ticket e It could bear fruit to Mrs. Collins a larger sum of what would otherwise get. Of course, everything will depend on how many tickets he will be able to sell. “I did a lot of research. I didn’t wake up one day and decided to put it up. I’m not the first to do it and I will certainly not be the last », he told Imelda, 52 years old, at the New York Times.
The goal of Mrs. Collins is to move to Italywhere she lived 12 years together with her husband – but to do so she needs to monetize. To give her the idea of the lottery was a compatriot who gave his Dublin apartment with the dream of moving to Paris. « I thought her story was similar to mine, » says Imelda that in January she contacted the Paris woman and received a good response on her experience with the platform used, Raffall.coma technological society based in England.
«I thought I could earn more with the sale of tickets of the lottery compared to the conventional market, « he said. She liked the idea that the winner can acquire the cottage to a symbolic figure and the « turnkey » process: A system for the distribution of tickets, the processing of payments, the legal conformity, the selection of the winner and the transfer, all managed by the online platform.
Anyone in the world can participate: lLottery has been officially opened in October but the sale of tickets will end on May 22 at 10:00 Irish standard now, with the extraction that will take place on the same day.
150 thousand 5 -pound tickets each
There evaluation of the cottage approached 300 thousand euros« But that figure could have changed in the meantime, due to the real estate crisis in Ireland ». Mrs. Collins therefore decided that The goal was to sell 150 thousand British 5 -pound tickets (just under 6 euros) one and get 400 thousand euros. In the event that the threshold of 150 thousand tickets should not be reached, IMELDA will have a pair of options: it will be able to give the winner half of the ticket revenues, with 10% that will go to the platform, and keep 40% and house; Or he will be able to decide to yield the house anyway and keep the sum obtained from the sale of tickets.
Lotterie have an ancient tradition in Great Britain and online platforms they impose the winners to donate a part of the proceeds to charity bodies; Mrs. Collins herself, who works for the Health Service Executive, the Irish public health program, He has committed himself to making a « generous donation » to the Irish Society for the Prevention of CrueLty to Animals.
« Already 18 houses sold »
«We had not foreseen the lotteries of houses – Stelios Kounou confessed, CEO of the Raffall platform, al New York Times -,, But to date 18 houses have already been sold on our portal, with the sale of tickets that collected between 500 thousand and over million euros « .
At the moment on the platform it is possible to compete to win a villa with swimming pool in Portugal, a residence in Phuket in Thailand or even a luxury villa in Majorca.
This type of prize competitions are not authorized in Italy: Only the state can organize lotteries that, classified between the gambling, are under state monopoly. The only cases in which the State allows the organization of Lotterie come true when there are no prizes or are only symbolic, when they are organized by parties and develop in local events or if it organizes a non -profit organization, or a non -profit association, to finance its own objectives.
