Home heating oil prices are rising just as temperatures start to drop.

Home sales are falling but prices keep climbing. The reason has less to do with buyers and more to do with what tariffs are doing to the cost of building.

The national average gasoline price will probably hit $4.03 on Labor Day, topping the record $3.83 per gallon set in 2012, said GasBuddy's Patrick De Haan.

A 2% rise in the past year toppled the old record of $831,000 set in June 2025. Attom’s count includes homes and condos, both existing and newly built, in six local counties.

Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.