The Saskatchewan REALTORS Association benchmark describes the city as a whole, but neighbourhood-level purchase prices swing above and below it based on age of housing stock, lot size and proximity to downtown, the university or the river. An older neighbourhood with smaller homes can let a buyer own for close to what they currently pay in rent, while a newer, larger-home neighbourhood widens the monthly gap between renting and buying.
What stays constant across every Saskatoon neighbourhood is the direction of the comparison over time: rent tends to rise while a fixed mortgage payment does not, and ownership builds equity that renting never does. The neighbourhood mainly changes how long it takes for that trade to pay off.
Joel Dyck can run the actual numbers for a specific neighbourhood and price point so the comparison is real, not a citywide average. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.