Houses in Rockford are selling at a record rate. That’s according to the “Rockford Area Realtors.”

The agency says homes are selling in just under nine weeks and that’s good news for sellers.

A Rockford couple who lived in their house for almost 30 years benefited from a quick sale. Within a week of listing their home, they had multiple showings, three offers and officially sold their house to a new family moving to Rockford.

“We were stunned actually,” Chris and David Kase, home sellers, said.

“We really didn’t think it was going to go that fast”

In Rockford, houses on the market aren’t staying there long. The average amount of time it takes for a home to be sold is at an all time low and sellers like the Kase’s are having no trouble finding buyers. Their house was off the market and sold in just a week.

“Pretty unbelievable, pretty quick,” the Kase’s said. “We had no place to go until yesterday, so now we’re scrambling.”

“At just over two months, it’s very, very low, so we would consider six months as a balanced market, so it doesn’t favor the sellers, doesn’t favor the buyers,” Conor Brown, CEO of Rockford Area Realtors, said. “It’s just a nice healthy balance, so right now I would say it’s very much a seller’s market.”

There are a number of reasons why homes for sale in Rockford are going quick: the number of homes for sale is also lower than average, pitting more buyers against each other, and a lot more people are looking to come to Rockford.

“They can get a lot of house for their money in the Rockford area, so I think that’s been kind of an attractive quality and when you have wage growth and also job growth in the area that contributes to it,” Brown said.

“It’s nice to know people are moving to Rockford,” the Kase’s said. “One of the offers was a couple from Denver and their family, they’re moving here.”

According to Rockford area realtors, March is a good month to sell your house, but say the market is always changing, so be sure to do your research.

“Interview a few realtors, ask them what they see happening right now in the market, so that if they have to get it ready to sell, so it could be the next house sold,” Brown said.

The agency says homes are selling in just under nine weeks, which beats the record of just over 12 weeks set back in 2011.

Rockford is also in the top 13% of affordable housing markets in the U.S., so potential buyers can afford to buy their ideal homes.