Two different numbers are in play and executors regularly confuse them. The date of death value fixes the estate's position and becomes the cost base going forward. The eventual sale price is what the market pays months later, and any increase between the two can be a taxable capital gain to the estate or to the beneficiaries rather than being sheltered. Getting the first number properly documented is what keeps the second one from causing a surprise.
The administration runs on its own track. Title is held through Information Services Corporation and normally must be transferred into the executor's name before a sale, which is handled by a Saskatchewan lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Saskatchewan, with legal fees on a straightforward sale of $800 to $1,500 separate from probate. Where several beneficiaries share the estate, a written valuation is also what prevents an argument about whether the house was sold too cheaply.
Arbor Creek is a northeast neighbourhood built mainly through the 1990s, so an inherited home there has had thirty years of ownership and often thirty years of undocumented improvement. Shingles, furnace, windows, flooring and a finished basement rarely appear in any record. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation documents them, which supports both the estate filing and the eventual sale price.