Is it strange that I don’t want to give my contact details to the buyer?

Alter_ego

Our vendors walk past our new house taking children to school & back  twice daily.  Would be pointless denying them our contact details.  Our buyers live 2 miles away and are happy to call us when redirecting mail fails. We made a point of leaving all instruction books in the old house, so they only contact us if something difficult crops up.
Would always be up for exchanging details subject to our initial assessment of them.

pinkteapot

Don't do it! You're paying your EA good money - they can deal with the buyer. 

elsien

I requested contact details for the person I was buying from so I could redirect their post - they'd not set anything up. Just had postal address, no phone number or email to start with, which was fine as I wasn't planning on trying to talk to them anyway. In the end they contacted me to give their phone number so I could let them know when their cat had made its way back to mine yet again. I can completely see why people say  no though - I wouldn't mind giving a throwaway email address but I'd not share my phone number.

Torry_Quine

When we sold our house everyone who wanted to view had my number. They called me to arrange when I was available for them to view.  It was never a problem.

Thrugelmir

There's always somebody that you don't want to give your number too. Remember many years ago our buyers were a young couple who were constantly knocking on the front door asking questions and wanting to come in!. 

GDB2222

Torry_Quine said:

When we sold our house everyone who wanted to view had my number. They called me to arrange when I was available for them to view.  It was never a problem.

It's never occurred to me NOT to give out my number.

onyx911

Thank you all so much, really helpful to know I am not alone. The buyer now sent an email to the agent that she forwarded to me and they asked for a number or email for us. Harder to say no to them than it was to the agent. I have taken the suggestion above of setting up a new email account. If I get questions telling me something is going wrong in a months time then I might just ignore it. 

FTB_Help

I find ea to be really slow, so me and my vendor have been kept in touch via email. I initiated the first email to introduce myself and pass them my number and email, although i have their number i have not called them and prfer to email ive emailed to arrange valuation and survey.

I've also emailed to let them know when my solicitor was waiting for documents from their really slow, unresponsive solicitors. They've chased their solicitors and got things moving which probably would not have happened as quickly if i went through the ea, who is terribly slow and rarely picks up (purple bricks)

Davesnave

GDB2222 said:

Torry_Quine said:

When we sold our house everyone who wanted to view had my number. They called me to arrange when I was available for them to view.  It was never a problem.

It's never occurred to me NOT to give out my number.

 On many occasions you might well be leaving the landline  number behind anyway.

Drawingaline

Bizarrely this has just happened to us. Vendor asked for our details. EA wasn't keen really, and I don't see the point,but agreed for my email address to be given. I can always mark it for junk if it gets too much!