--- title: Woman Who Offered Herself Along WIth Her House Finds Buyer-Husband description: An Indonesian woman who offered her hand to a suitable buyer of her house has found a man willing to both buy the property and marry her canonical: https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/ author: Yenni Kwok article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-15T07:28:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:28.528Z og:title: Indonesian Man Buys House With Readymade Bride og:description: The asking price was $76,500. og:url: https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9ad63d140dac2f2/6987efd2a988ca46fb6b0a83/465945280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2895 og:image:height: 1628 og:image:alt: For sale: House (and wife) in Indonesia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Indonesian Man Buys House With Readymade Bride twitter:description: The asking price was $76,500. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9ad63d140dac2f2/6987efd2a988ca46fb6b0a83/465945280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Who Offered Herself Along With Her House Finds a Buyer (and Husband) > Sponsored content. 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Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff talks about the most common mistakes home sellers make when they are listing their houses._ by [Yenni Kwok](https://time.com/author/yenni-kwok/) ## Yenni Kwok May 15, 2015 7:28 AM UTC  Wina Lia, 40, poses at her home in Sleman, Indonesia, on March 12, 2015 Wina Lia, 40, poses at her home in Sleman, Indonesia, on March 12, 2015 Anadolu Agency—Getty Images by [Yenni Kwok](https://time.com/author/yenni-kwok/) ## Yenni Kwok May 15, 2015 7:28 AM UTC An Indonesian woman who offered her hand to a suitable buyer of her house has found a man willing to both buy the property and marry her, local media reports. “His name is Redi Eko,” Wina Lia, 40, [told](http://regional.kompas.com/read/2015/05/13/16131431/Akhirnya.Wina.Temukan.Pria.yang.Mau.Beli.Rumahnya.dan.Menikahinya) _Kompas_ daily this week. “He is also looking for a wife.” Like her, Redi is also a single parent. When he heard about Wina’s financial difficulties, the 46-year-old state-owned company employee offered his assistance. “He will sell his house in Lampung \[in Sumatra\] and will use the money to help me,” she [said](http://regional.kompas.com/read/2015/05/13/17322631/Alasan.Wina.Pilih.Pria.asal.Lampung.untuk.Beli.Rumah.dan.Menikahinya). Wina [put](http://time.com/3738528/house-indonesia-wife/) her two-bedroom, two-bathroom house, which comes with a fish pond and spacious backyard, in Sleman, in Yogyakarta province, up for sale two months ago. The asking price was around $76,500\. Her online ad went viral, thanks to the tagline: ‘Buy the house and marry the owner at the same time.’ Redi said that he had already planned to move to Yogyakarta to be closer with his children, who go to university there. “Whether with Wina or somebody else, I will still live in Yogya,” Redi [told](http://regional.kompas.com/read/2015/05/14/19260651/Siap.Beli.Rumah.dan.Menikah.Redi.Mengaku.Sudah.Dekat.dengan.Anak.Wina?utm%5Fcampaign=popread&utm%5Fmedium=bp&utm%5Fsource=news) _Kompas_. The pair have yet to meet in person, but they have been talking on the phone and exchanging text messages daily, and will meet face to face soon. “The plan is, we will go on _umrah_ \[minor pilgrimage to Mecca\],” Wina said. “If everything goes smoothly, we will get married next month.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/"},"headline":"Woman Who Offered Herself Along With Her House Finds a Buyer (and Husband)","datePublished":"2015-05-15T07:28:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:28.528Z","description":"The asking price was $76,500","url":"https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Marriage","house","indonesia","World"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9ad63d140dac2f2/6987efd2a988ca46fb6b0a83/465945280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Yenni Kwok","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/yenni-kwok/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9ad63d140dac2f2/6987efd2a988ca46fb6b0a83/465945280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"For sale: House (and wife) in Indonesia","caption":"For sale: House (and wife) in Indonesia","creditText":"Anadolu Agency—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/","name":"Woman Who Offered Herself Along With Her House Finds a Buyer (and Husband)"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Most Common Mistakes Home Sellers Make","description":"Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff talks about the most common mistakes home sellers make when they are listing their houses.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HXlpdeMm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-26T20:54:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HXlpdeMm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3859852/woman-sells-house-herself-finds-husband-marriage-indonesia-wina-lia/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```