Selling luxury residential homes at auction is a growing trend in the Chicago area, just ask Taylor Johnson client Diana Peterson of AuctionWorks. The firm recently completed the sale of a five-bedroom home in Lincoln Park for $1.45M, well above the suggested opening bid of $1.25M and the unpublished reserve price of $1.35M. With a few more Chicago-area luxury residential auctions in the pipeline, Peterson penned an article for Chicago Agent, highlighting a few of the many benefits that an auction sale can yield.