Legal & General Surveying Services has hired Richard Sexton as managing director to lead a new team.

It follows L&G’s sale of its surveying arm, LGSS, to Beach Equity last year as part of a simplification strategy by the life company.

Sexton is a veteran of the surveying sector, having worked at e.surv for 34 years before joining Houzecheck as commercial director last year.

In addition to new and primary role at LGSS, Sexton will continue to work as an advisor to Houzecheck.

The new L&G team includes Graham Sloan as surveying director.

Sloan spent almost a decade in the Royal Navy as a warfare officer before moving into surveying at CBRE.

He joined Legal & General Investment Management in 2014 as an asset manager before moving to lenders such as Lloyds Banking Group, OSB Group and Santander.

Rebecca Freeman, the founder of Women in Residential Surveying, joins as risk director following 22 years with Countrywide Surveying Services.

Paula Matthews, who has been with LGSS for nine years, has been appointed strategic relationship director.

Jamie Elliot has been promoted to chief operating officer, having spent nearly seven years with the business as finance director.

Jodie White has been promoted to delivery director, bringing with her more than 20 years’ experience within LGSS, including as head of product and transformation.

Sexton says: “LGSS is an established brand with strong in-house expertise. It has a team of knowledgeable and skilled surveyors who deliver quality work and are experienced valuing complex properties for BTL portfolios, HMOs and the like.

“They are already backed by strong data, audit and tech teams.

“LGSS’s Property Decision Engine, for instance, is first class – speeding up the process for borrowers and reducing costs for lenders.

“Now, with a new senior leadership team combining decades of experience across the property and surveying sectors, we plan to expand the business and unleash its potential.

“This marks a new chapter for LGSS.”

LGSS has been operating for more than 20 years and provides valuation, surveying and digital reporting for lenders.

It handled 375,000 mortgage valuations in 2025.