Consider who benefits from a long figure. Guides of that kind are usually produced by cash buying operations, and the case for a discounted offer rests on the reader believing a conventional sale is slow. A number that never names its month, its area or whether it counts condominiums alongside detached houses is doing persuasion, not reporting.
The measurement is soft even when it is honest. Days on market can run from the current listing date or the original one, so a home relisted after an expiry looks new. It is also an average across the whole city, which means an overpriced listing sitting for months and a well priced one gone in a week are blended into a figure that describes neither.
Use supply instead, because it is harder to fudge. The association reports 1.63 months of supply for Saskatoon, 446 sales in the month and new listings up 12.3 percent year over year, which together describe how quickly standing inventory would clear. Your own timeline still comes down to price and condition, which is what Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation sets.