Rent varies enormously by bedroom count, building age and neighbourhood in Saskatoon, and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey is the source built to track that variation properly, rather than a single citywide average that flattens very different buildings into one misleading number.
What is more useful than a single rent figure is the comparison that actually matters for a homeowner: whether the income a property could generate as a rental still beats what selling it now, with months of supply at 1.63, would put in your hands.
That comparison needs a real number on the house, not a rent estimate pulled from a headline. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.