Mayoral candidate Josh Kraft amplified claims this week that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration has artificially inflated commercial property values and punished owners who have applied for tax abatements.

“While I can’t speak to the accuracy of these allegations, they are serious and credible. And they demand an answer,” Kraft said at an event Thursday. “If the evidence is wrong, she needs to prove it. A wholesale dismissal—which has been her standard response—is unacceptable. Because right now it looks like the Mayor is using her office to punish property owners for exercising their rights under the law.”

The allegations were made by a group of legal experts with the Pioneer New England Legal Foundation, according to Kraft’s campaign.

Boston’s Real Estate Bar Association hosted

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