Agent's incentive for buyers … a free wife!

You might be forgiven for thinking the advert reads “free wifi” - but no, the ad for a home on sale includes the offer of “free wife.”

That is because an estate agent in Indonesia is offering this unusual incentive for buyers of a two bedroom bungalow - they can marry the owner for free.

The internet advertisement for the house at Yogyakarta on Java island says it is priced at IDR999m (equivalent to about £50,000) and includes a “rare offer”.

"Buy at the asking price and take the owner as your wife (terms and conditions apply)" says the advertisement, which also pictures the owner, a 40 year old widow and beauty salon owner called Wina Li. 

Wina, a mother of two children, has had to explain the advertisement to the police and says there is nothing untoward as she is "looking for a husband anyway."

She said she originally intended the estate agent to tell friends that she was looking for a buyer and had jokingly commented that she also wanted a husband, without expecting the advertisement to include both. 

Estate agent Dian Purna Dirgantara told local newspapers that if someone just wanted to buy the house, they were under no obligation to marry Wina. "Since yesterday morning there are continuous calls, I don't count how many, there must be dozens or even hundreds," he says.

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