Estate agent fined $35,000

Wellington: A real estate agent who sold a Wellington home with rot and ‘‘bogged’’ weatherboards has been ordered to pay $35,000 by the industry’s disciplinary tribunal after the owner suffered losses of more than $200,000.

The $35,000 payment included $20,000 worth of general damages — believed to be the largest of its type to come out of the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal.

Ben Cartwright, who worked for Harcourts at the time, was fined in July after pleading guilty to a charge of misconduct over the sale of a house in the Wellington suburb of Karori.