The reason is the range of the housing stock. Riversdale sits west of downtown across from River Landing, and its 1900s and 1920s homes run from fully restored properties near 20th Street West and the Farmers' Market to houses untouched for fifty years. On the wider lots, redevelopment interest can make the land worth more than the structure, which is a completely different valuation exercise from pricing a family home.
The executor's steps are the same regardless. Title is administered through Information Services Corporation and normally transferred to the executor before sale, with a Saskatchewan lawyer under the Law Society of Saskatchewan handling the transaction at roughly $800 to $1,500 in fees. If the house will sit empty, confirm vacant property coverage with the insurer and keep the heat on through winter. In this neighbourhood, selling as is to an investor or a renovator is often the right answer rather than a failure of nerve.
Before deciding, find out what is actually there. A $400 to $600 inspection tells you whether the wiring, plumbing and foundation support a retail sale, and a walkthrough shows the improvements the deceased made that no public record or online estimate captured. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation gives the estate a defensible number and a clear choice between selling as is and selling prepared.