HUD REO properties off the market

Via TheREALTYGram: an announcement on the private BidSelect site says, "...In response to the critical need for housing for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has removed all HUD-owned REO properties from the marketplace in Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia...." In other words, no private sales of HUD-owned foreclosed properties in those areas for the time being.