The Winners and the Homes – NBC 6 South Florida

Officials are preparing to draw lucky winners of the Miami-Dade County Dream Home Lottery on Friday.

The lottery for the purchase of two newly built houses received a total of 23,483 applications while it was open from July 24 to August 7.

Residents are invited to attend the drawing at the Miami-Dade County Main Library at 101 West Flagler Street in Miami.

According to the county, ten candidates will be selected through a computer-generated random selection process.

“These ten selected applicants will be ranked from 1 to 10. Applicants ranked #1 and #2 will move on to the financing and homeownership closing process,” a press release describes.

If either person “is unable to secure financing within the specified time frame, the next ranked applicant will be considered, continuing this process until both homes are sold.”

The homes at 15300 SW 296th Street have four bedrooms and two bathrooms, with sizes ranging from 1,813 square feet to 1,777 square feet. The purchase price is $394,000.

“To put this in context, the median home value in Miami-Dade County is close to $600,000 – many families and young individuals find that median price to be an impossible goal,” Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins said in announcing the lottery.