Erindale is an established northeast neighbourhood of bungalows and two storey family homes on curved crescents, with mature landscaping, schools and parks inside its boundary and quick access to Attridge Drive and Circle Drive. It was built out largely in the 1980s, which means a large share of its original buyers are now at retirement age and thinking about the same move at the same time. The Saskatchewan REALTORS Association puts the city benchmark at $444,700, and well kept Erindale family homes commonly sell above it.
The mechanics of that move need someone who has done it before. Under The Homesteads Act, 1989 a spouse must consent in writing to the sale of the family home, every Saskatchewan sale closes through a lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Saskatchewan at roughly $800 to $1,500, and seller closing costs overall run 4 to 6 percent of the sale price. Possession dates on the sale and the purchase have to be set together so you are not moving twice.
The valuation is where the money is either captured or lost. A furnace replaced twice, newer shingles, a developed basement, a widened driveway and updated windows are all real value and all invisible to an online estimate. Joel walks the home, documents each improvement, prices against genuinely comparable Erindale sales, and works to the timeline the family actually has.