The value is in leverage. Home inspectors are regulated separately from REALTORS, who are licensed by the Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission, so ask about the inspector's own credentials and references before booking. A buyer's inspector reporting a cracked heat exchanger during a condition period hands the buyer an open ended renegotiation, and buyers routinely ask for more than the repair would cost. The same finding six weeks earlier is a quote from a contractor you chose. Sellers who go this route also avoid the worst outcome, which is a deal collapsing at the condition deadline and the listing going back on the market carrying an obvious question mark.
There are real trade-offs. Anything the inspection uncovers becomes a known material defect you must disclose, so you cannot commission a report and shelve the unwelcome parts. Some sellers of newer homes reasonably decide the money is better spent elsewhere. On a home over thirty years old, or one where the furnace, shingles or electrical panel are original, the case is much stronger.
It also feeds the price. A documented list of what has been replaced and when supports the number, particularly for work the City of Saskatoon has no permit record of, which no online estimate can see. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation uses that documentation to price the improvements rather than leaving a buyer to assume the worst.