Hi,
It seems Ulster Bank has started refusing to release deeds to solicitors on Accountable Trust Receipt (the normal way to sell a house) where a property whose sale they have directed is in negative equity - this will basically prevent a solicitor from drawing up contracts for sale. The Law Society is understandably unimpressed. Link:
They have also come up with a new requirement that any second-hand property constructed in the past ten years must have Homebond cover, despite same often not being required at the time of construction. They are treating this as a title issue, which it isn't (according to the Law Society). Link:
One would have to wonder whether they intend to deal with conveyancing at all any more or if it's just yet another layer of their usual incompentance.