Sydney real estate agent accidentally sets client’s house on fire while tidying up for inspections
A Sydney real estate agent accidentally burned her client’s multimillion-dollar Northern Beaches home to ground, a court has ruled.
Domain Residential realtor Julie Bundock was supervising an open house at the four-bedroom home on Riverview Rd at Avalon Beach in May 2019 when the blaze erupted, and she had to make an unenviable call to her client.
“Oh my God, Pete, I think I have burnt down your house,” homeowner Peter Alan Bush told the Supreme Court of NSW that Bundock said to him over the phone.
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Bundock admitted to tossing some of the tenants’ bedding, which was drying on the verandah, onto a freestanding metal shelf next to a wall-mounted light in one of the bedrooms while she was tidying.
“I just threw them there, Pete, right up against the light on the wall. I think that’s what started the fire,” Bush recalled Bundock saying, in court documents obtained by 7NEWS.com.au.
It is believed to heat from the light set the