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What is my house worth if I inherited it and never lived there?

It is worth what a comparable property would sell for on the open market, the same as any other house, but never having lived there changes two things: you likely need a valuation for the Canada Revenue Agency's deemed disposition rules, and you are pricing a house you may know very little about firsthand.

The CRA treats an inherited property as disposed of and reacquired at fair market value on the date of death, and that figure sets the cost base for capital gains if the estate or the beneficiary later sells. Getting that number wrong in either direction creates a tax problem years later, so it is worth documenting properly at the time rather than estimating from memory.

Title moves through Information Services Corporation once probate or the necessary estate paperwork clears, and until that transfer is registered you cannot list the property for sale. A lawyer handles that step, and most estate lawyers in Saskatoon can tell you roughly how long the ISC transfer will take before a listing agreement makes sense.

Because you never lived in the house, you are also the buyer's worst source on its condition. A roof replaced ten years ago, a knob and tube rewire, a permit pulled for the basement, none of that is in your memory the way it would be for a longtime owner, and legal fees to settle the estate transfer through a Saskatoon lawyer typically run $800 to $1,500. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation walks the property and documents what is actually there before pricing it. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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