For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS. Improved or unimproved real property or a part thereof that is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied as the home or residence of one or more persons.
REAL ESTATE BROKER OR SALESPERSON. 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; who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of those activities; who holds himself or herself out as engaged in those activities; who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by a mortgage or other encumbrance upon real property; who is engaged in the business of listing real property in a publication; or a person employed by or acting on behalf of a REAL ESTATE BROKER OR SALESPERSON.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION. The sale, exchange, rental, or lease of real property or an interest therein.
REAL PROPERTY. A building, structure, mobile home, real estate, land, mobile home park, trailer park, tenement, leasehold, or an interest in a real estate cooperative or condominium.
(1993 Code, § 96.01)