The following terms used in this Chapter shall have the following meanings:
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION: Includes any improved or unimproved real property, or part thereof, which is used or occupied as the home or residence of one or more individuals.
NATIONAL ORIGIN: Includes the national origin of an ancestor.
PERSON: Includes an individual, association, corporation, legal representative, mutual company, partnership and any other legal or commercial entity.
REAL ESTATE BROKER or SALESMAN: A person, whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or leases real property, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these activities, or who holds himself out as engaged in these activities, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon real property, or who is engaged in the business of listing real property in a publication, or a person employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION: Includes the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property.
REAL PROPERTY: Includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, real estate cooperatives, condominiums or any interest therein.
SEX: Refers to gender, male or female.