PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET  

Property and equipment, net consists of the following at December 31:

	Useful Lives (years)	2019			2018
Land	—	$	18,653		$	9,958
Building and leasehold improvements	5-39	137,448			122,241
Computer equipment and purchased software	3-5	99,435			84,649
Furniture and fixtures	5	28,506			27,238
Transportation equipment	5	402			438
		284,444			244,524
Accumulated depreciation and amortization		(112,583		)	(89,347		)
Property and equipment, net		$	171,861		$	155,177

Depreciation expense was $23.4 million in 2019, $21.2 million in 2018, and $17.3 million in 2017.

We paid $20.8 million and $2.2 million for real estate and the expansion of existing buildings in 2019 and 2018, respectively.

In 2017, we purchased an office building in Latham, New York for approximately $2.9 million and paid $2.1 million for improvements to that building. We also paid $19.4 million for construction to expand our office building in Yarmouth, Maine.