Holding, operating, mortgaging, encumbering, leasing, managing, developing, brokering, subdividing, constructing, improving, renovating, converting and selling real estate, either directly or by investing in real estate ventures, partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies or related entities; purchasing, subscribing for, or otherwise acquiring and owning, holding, improving, using, selling, conveying, assigning, releasing, mortgaging, encumbering, leasing, hiring, managing, and dealing in stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, evidences of indebtedness, and securities of other persons and entities; the loaning of money and taking of securities for the payment of all sums due and to selling, assigning, and releasing such securities; purchasing or otherwise acquiring and to holding, selling, or otherwise disposing of and to retiring and reissuing ownership interests of any class, borrowing or raising money for investment, issuing bonds, debentures and notes for money so borrowed