Online estimates and public records read square footage, lot size and permit filings, but they have no way to see a finished basement, an updated kitchen or a legal secondary suite that was never filed with the City of Saskatoon.
Joel's valuation accounts for those improvements directly, walking the property rather than relying only on data that is, by definition, incomplete for any home with unpermitted work. Against a Saskatoon benchmark price of $444,700, the improvements an estimate misses are rarely a rounding error.
That gap between what algorithms see and what is actually there is why a hand-reviewed number tends to be more accurate. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.