Investing in your child's education as well as your real estate portfolio can really pay off.

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With the Post Co. picking up the tab, Kaplan began to acquire unglamorous education concerns like Schweser Study Programs (which trains certified financial analysts), the National Institute of Paralegal Arts and Sciences, and Dearborn Publishing Group (an adult-education company that offers training for real estate, securities and insurance certification).

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Because of the integrated nature of oil and gas prices on the economy, as much as 38% of the job losses felt by new energy sector taxes would affect seemingly unrelated professional fields like education, administration, health care, real estate and the arts.

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And DocuSign has managed to penetrate deeply into a number of vertical markets, among them consumer products, insurance, financial services, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, and education.

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We tried to determine which college towns offer solid real estate investments by looking at the top 50 places for education, as ranked in the Millennium edition of the Places Rated Almanac (the rankings were based on such factors as the local school funding, size and popularity of local libraries, and the college options).

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Walter Shorenstein, founder of a prominent California real estate firm, adviser to three U.S. presidents and devoted education supporter, died at his home in San Francisco on Thursday of natural causes.

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This "repurposed" space a common real-estate term would also make room for writers, scholars, seminars, adult education and children's activities.

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Once the real-estate market begins to improve, we would expect a trickle-through effect into retail, education, and other everyday living requirement to come into play.

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