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The industry's feelings about property present a stark dichotomy between London and the regions. When is this going to change? EG held a panel discussion to find out.

Savills has leapfrogged to the top of the central London agent's league table in quarter one. Boosted by the Google mega deal, the agency has shot up from 5th place at the end of last year notching up an impressive 1.1m sq ft of disposals in Q1, and bagging nearly a third of the London market. DTZ is in second place having acted as joint agents with Savills on the 860,000 sq ft prelet to internet giant Google at King's Cross Central in January, according to EGi's London Office Market Analysis released today.

This is the first in a new series of market updates from Estates Gazette. We speak with experts in the retail, office and industrial sectors to find out what trends are happening and where they're heading in the weeks and months to come.

Estates Gazette's residential reporter Annabel Dixon interviews Santander Corporate's Scott Stuart about lending for residential development in the UK.

The Duke of Westminster's property group, Grosvenor, reported a pretax profits rise from £315m to £354.4m in 2012, driven by strong performance in the UK and Ireland. EG's David Harris speaks to Mark Preston, chief executive of Grosvenor, about the figures.

At Estates Gazette's Big Question Round Table, Prestbury Investments chairman Nick Leslau, the British Property Federation's Liz Peace, GN2's Julie Rees and Irwin Mitchell's John Vivian tackle property's pressing issues including tax, TMT and what this year's Budget has in store for the sector.

British Land's Chris Grigg speaks to EG's Jack Sidders at MIPIM about the mood of this year's property show, as well as the big announcement of a share raising and sale of Ropemaker Place. The two announcements meant the company raised £1bn this week.