Selling your home by raffle could be a gamble

It may seem like a lucrative way to beat the market, but you could end up out of pocketIt was an ambitious plan: Donna Pirie offered to give away her £1.7m Aberdeenshire mansion in a competition, but she wanted to sell £3.75m worth of tickets to do so and give £1m to charity.In the end, she sold just 10,000 tickets at £25 each – totalling £250,000 – despite national newspaper coverage. The terms and conditions of the competition allowed her to delay the