Doug Shanks devotes a substantial amount of their practice to both residential and commercial real estate. Matters such as the acquisition and sale of land, financing, land-use planning and other issues which may arise in the course of business are handled with expertise with the assistance of highly-trained paralegal staff.

Doug also practices Condominium Law in Thunder Bay. Cheadles has been involved, on behalf of many developers, in the establishment of a number of condominium proposals in Thunder Bay and he represents a number of condominium corporations as their legal adviser once it is set-up.

In addition, Doug represents various developers in the design and creation of residential plans of subdivision and in the sale of their lots.