Throughout the past few years, Minnesota foreclosures remained above average. Just last year in 2009, some of the market recovered within the Minnesota real estate market, however other parts of the market continued to plummet. Although the amount of home sales were up in 2009 compared to 2008, the average price of the homes were down. Overall, many of the homes sold consisted of vacant properties. In general, many of the homes sold were 15% lower in price than the year before.