Atlanta Real Estate Firm Prudential Georgia Realty ranks #1 in 2009 for listings and buyers (dBusinessNews.com)

Atlanta real estate, despite the economy and misleading television news reports, still had a very active year in 2009. Prudential Georgia Realty, for instance, sold 6,800 homes in metro Atlanta in 2009 for a gross residential sales volume of more than $1.5 billion.

An IDX Broker Addition is Used to Increase Efficiency for Consumers Preforming their Real Estate Search Online (dBusinessNews.com)

EUGENE, ORE. – Curtis Darragh with Houlihan Lawrence, Inc. has chosen to employ IDX, Inc. to modernize, simplify and organize the search function of his real estate website, with the incorporation of a custom IDX solution.

People in the News (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Richard Ferst has been named chief executive officer of Urdang, a real estate investment unit of BNY Mellon Asset Management. Ferst, based in Plymouth Meeting, had been chief operating officer and president. He remains chief operating officer.

Sermanni set to survey the stars of tomorrow (Griffith Area News)

NATIONAL women's football coach Tom Sermanni will again be on the look out for the next big thing in the game when he casts his eye over the talent taking to the pitch for the Griffith nine-a-side tournament this weekend.

M-R coaching duo enter their fifth decade (Monmouth Daily Review Atlas)

MONMOUTH — Monmouth-Roseville wrestling coaches Bob Reedy and Steve Elliott passed a milestone during the 2009-10 campaign. Both coaches entered their fifth decade of coaching after starting their careers in the 1970s.