Should you avail of that Captial Gains Tax relief dating from the downturn?

Relief was initially designed as an exemption based on a minimum seven year holding period

The relief now applies in full for property sold in the period from four years to seven years after purchase.

I find it hard to believe we are more than a decade on from the post-2008 economic downturn, a time when major tax incentives were brought in to shore up property prices and create demand for houses.

Given where we are now, with house prices off the Richter scale, it seems illogical that house prices could need any support.