From left: Craig Caggiano and Franklin Wallach/ Composite edited by Steve Lubetkin

NEW YORK CITY—The big question going into 2018 was will office demand be able to keep pace with a growing supply accounting for new construction and existing buildings in Midtown?

Colliers International recorded for the month of October Manhattan's monthly leasing reached 3.97 million square feet. This was up from 3.12 million square feet in September, and up from 2.25 million square feet in October 2017.

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Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.