An estate sale also usually involves more than one decision-maker. Multiple heirs need to agree on price and timing, and an agent used to that dynamic will build in the extra sign-off time rather than treating it like a single-owner sale on a normal timeline.
Pricing an inherited house is different work too. Deferred maintenance and past renovations done without a permit are common in a long-held family home, and public records or an online estimate cannot see either one, which is exactly the gap a hand-reviewed valuation is built to close.
Joel Dyck has coordinated Saskatoon estate sales with lawyers who typically charge in the $800 to $1,500 range for this kind of file, timing the listing to when title actually clears rather than guessing. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.