Adding a suite to a house this old is where the value question sits. The City of Saskatoon requires a permit, fire separation and egress windows that many pre-war basements do not have without excavation, and owners who did the work properly can prove it.
A century of invisible work, knob and tube replaced, a foundation parged or piled, a basement lowered, changes the number just as much as the suite itself, and none of it shows up in an assessment record.
Joel Dyck walks the property, records the improvements and prices against genuinely comparable Buena Vista sales rather than a neighbourhood average. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.