Is contacting the vendor directly ok?

Skiddaw1

The first time we tried to sell our previous house the EA failed to pass an offer onto us. We'd never have found out about it had the potential buyers not been local. The sale ultimately fell through and we later sold with a different agent (obviously). Thankfully, their sales progression team were fantastic.

jodiepoke

Thanks for your answers. Our sale and purchase is through the same estate agent but we are getting no responses when we ask what the forward chain is like.

Our solicitor has memorandum of sale but can’t progress anything until they get contact from our purchase. This is our second time buying and not experienced a chain before. Do people tend to wait until chains are complete until they get moving with solicitors?

RoseGold2021

Personally, I wouldn’t have any contact with the vendor. You have employed a solicitor for communication with the vendor. If your solicitor is not giving you responses, & etc, get a new solicitor. 

Contacting a vendor outside the ‘legal’ channels, seems wrong but that’s my personal opinion. And also, if any specific discussion about the property takes place, it should be in writing not a ‘he said, she said’ should anything crop up later on in the conveyancing process.