A B.C. realtor who went behind a client’s back to buy a stake in a house the would-be buyer wanted has been ordered to shell out his share of the $1.2 million in profits made when he later flipped the house.

In a B.C. Supreme Court decision published this week, Justice Amy Francis said Alan Hu’s dealings with Pei Hua Zhong, a Chinese immigrant in Surrey who sought the private real estate agent’s services to sell his current home and buy another more than six years ago, were “deceptive and underhanded.”