“I never expected to win Live Rent Free for a Year”
This August, SpareRoom is giving renters the chance to win a cash prize of a whole year's rent. We caught up with our 2025 winner, Julia, to see how her life has changed since winning a whopping £7.9K in last year's prize draw!
Want to be this year’s winner? Enter here.*
Julia from Hampshire has rented the same house for 19 years and, after her daughter flew the nest, leaving a spare bedroom, she’s used SpareRoom to find every one of her housemates since. The first thing she did after winning was tell her housemate Robert.
This was Julia’s first time entering our yearly prize draw, and she was still in total disbelief when we called her to hear more about her story. She told us winning had offered her the opportunity to give back to the people who meant the most to her and who had helped her over the years.
“Winning was the biggest thing that happened to me last year. I gave some of the prize money to the church and a large amount to two of my good friends - one of whom runs a food bank, and the other helped me decorate my house a few years ago and didn’t charge me.”
Julia was also able to give money to her two children, and finally get the clutch fixed on her car.
“I really recommend entering Live Rent Free. I never expected to win it, but I wouldn’t have had a chance if I never entered. Thank you SpareRoom!”
If you want to be in with a chance of winning a year’s rent, enter now, before the prize draw closes at midday on 31.08.26*.
What would you do if you didn't have to worry about rent for a year?