North Texas was one of the top office leasing markets in the country in the first quarter and remains one of the busiest office building markets.

Only New York City had more net office leasing in the first three months of 2018, according to a new report by commercial property firm JLL.

More than 1.3 million square feet of D-FW net leasing was reported in the nationwide JLL office survey. New York was first with 1.6 million square feet of absorption and Washington, D.C. was ranked third with about 965,000 square feet of net leasing.

"As we enter the eighth year of this real estate cycle, Dallas-Fort Worth has shot to the top of the most in-demand office markets in the country," JLL analysts said.

North Texas ranked fourth for office construction in the first quarter, with about 7.5 million square feet of building space. That compares with more than 15 million square feet of construction in New York, the top office building market according to JLL.

D-FW office construction has slowed with completion of major projects for companies including Toyota, State Farm Insurance, JPMorgan Chase and Liberty Mutual Insurance.

JLL was more aggressive in its estimates of first quarter net office leasing in North Texas. It's numbers include subleases.

Other commercial brokerage firms, which track the office market, showed much smaller occupancy gains. The differences in office leasing estimates between sources are usually attributable to when the firms count move ins by companies.