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How do I choose the best realtor to sell my home?

The best realtor for your sale is the one who can show you recent, comparable results in your own neighbourhood and explain their pricing logic in plain language, not the one with the biggest ad budget. Ask any agent you interview for three recently sold comparables within a kilometre of your home and listen for how they justify the number.

A licence from the Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission is the baseline, not the differentiator. What separates agents is how they price a home that has been renovated or updated since its last City of Saskatoon assessment, since assessed value and market value are not the same thing and a lazy comparison sells you short by thousands of dollars.

Commission is negotiable in Saskatchewan and is often structured as a higher rate on the first portion of the price and a lower rate on the balance, so ask directly what the agent charges and what that percentage buys you in marketing, negotiation and paperwork through to possession. A realtor who cannot walk through that value in one conversation is not the one who will fight for your number at the table. Set that against the whole picture: total seller closing costs generally run 4 to 6 percent of the sale price once commission, legal fees of $800 to $1,500 and adjustments are counted.

Joel Dyck's process starts with a hand-reviewed walkthrough that documents improvements a desktop estimate never sees, then builds the comparables from there. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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