Data, Please

The claim has been made that real interest rates were low during the housing boom.  Can someone who believes this claim show us a time series for such real interest rates, and calculate the number of basis points by which those rates were low during the boom?  Then we can consider more carefully how much those rates might have elevated housing prices.

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