In a market built around a fee ban, the worry is that the cost gets relabelled and shifted onto the other side of the deal, a landlord folding it into rent or a buyer absorbing it in the price. That shift has nothing to move onto here, because the fee was never separately charged to the party the ban was meant to protect.
A Saskatoon seller still negotiates commission directly with their own agent before listing, often as a tiered rate, a higher percentage on the first portion of the price and a lower one on the balance, rather than a single number any ban or policy could have shifted, in a market currently sitting at a benchmark price of $444,700.
The real question for a Saskatoon seller has never been whether a fee moved, it is whether the number they negotiated actually reflects the work being done. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.