Slow home sales? Buy one, get one free in San Diego

San Diego - As though Southern California's fine weather and beaches weren't attractive enough, a San Diego developer desperate to clear inventory is offering potential home buyers a buy-one-get-one-free scheme.

In a market beset with foreclosures and plummeting sales following the mortgage meltdown in 2007, Michael Crews Development will give away a row home valued at US$400,000 with the purchase of a $1.6 million luxury estate home in the upscale city of Escondido in northern San Diego County.