HGTV to Give Away $2.2 million House

The HGTV Dream Home Giveaway 2008 has begun! You could win a gorgeous home in the Florida Keys, all the designer furnishings, plus a new GMC Yukon Hybrid! It's a grand prize package worth more than $2.2 million! And you can enter once a day from Jan. 1 to Feb. 19, 2008.

You can visit the HGTV Dream Home for a tour! The home will be open for tours from Jan. 3 through March 2, 2008. Tours are being managed by the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter, and 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the organization.

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HGTV will announce the lucky winner of the 2008 HGTV Dream Home Giveaway during a live television special on March 16 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT

Also up for grabs is a green show home in Tradition Hilton Head, a 5,300-acre, 9,500-home development in Hardeeville, S.C., HGTV will give the house away after it is featured on the Green Home 2008 special, Sunday, March 23.

Competition to win the $850,000, 2,000-square-foot, fully furnished home is expected to be fierce. The last Dream Home contest attracted more than 41 million entries, according to Emily Yarborough, spokesperson for HGTV.

The house will follow LEED standards (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the leading national benchmark for green building. Core Communities, the Florida-based company developing Tradition Hilton Head, will include a development-wide irrigation system to use only treated wastewater, a feature that helped the company secure the chance to build the house for HGTV.