Home alarms on the Costa Cálida: protected wherever you are.

How we protect you

Home security on the Costa Cálida: how we protect you

The Costa Cálida keeps two calendars. The Mar Menor fills with families from Murcia in July and August, while many owners on the inland golf resorts leave the heat of Camposol, Condado de Alhama or Hacienda Riquelme and spend the summer in the UK. By November it turns round: the apartment towers on La Manga are mostly shuttered and the resorts fill up with winter golfers. Whichever calendar your home follows, it spends months with nobody inside, and those are the months a monitored alarm is for.

On a resort townhouse, the technician fits a sensor on the front door and on the patio door, a camera detector covering the lounge and the foot of the stairs, and the keypad by the front door. On a duplex in Los Alcázares or Lo Pagán, the door up to the roof terrace gets a sensor too, because a terrace on a row of duplexes can be reached from next door. In a La Manga apartment, a door sensor and a camera detector in the hall do most of the work, while detached villas at La Manga Club usually add an outdoor detector by the pool. It is all wireless, so no cables are run through the house.

When a detector is triggered, at a Mazarrón villa or a flat in Santiago de la Ribera, it sends images and sound to Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, where operators work around the clock, every day of the year. An operator checks them first. If it is the neighbour who comes in to water the plants, or the gardener on Camposol arriving early, nobody is sent. If it is a stranger in the lounge, the police are called and handed the pictures, the siren starts inside the house, and the alert arrives on your phone in Birmingham or Belfast.

When a late-summer storm cuts the power in Torre-Pacheco or the fibre drops across a resort, the control panel switches to the 4G/5G network and runs on its backup battery, so the 24/7 monitoring goes on through the storm. From the app you arm the house as you drive to the airport at Corvera, disarm it for the pool man and, with the Plus kit, look in on the lounge from wherever you are. So a burglar alarm on a Costa Cálida home is not something you have to listen out for. It reports to people who act, while you get on with your months back home.

When nobody is there

Holiday homes, empty months and squatters on the Costa Cálida

Mar Menor homes empty out at the end of the summer. Duplexes in Los Alcázares and flats on La Manga, many of them bought for July and August, are locked from late September until Easter, and whole streets go quiet. Golf-resort homes work the other way round: lived in through the mild winter, then left from June while their owners avoid the inland heat. So there are streets on the Costa Cálida in almost any month where closed shutters and an empty drive tell anyone passing that the owners are far away.

That is when holiday home security matters most, because squatters look for exactly those signs. If squatters manage to move in, getting them out usually means going to court and waiting months. If the police are told while the break-in is happening, they can deal with it there and then. Camera detectors and an operator who checks the images are what make that possible on a deserted street in La Manga in February. Give a tag to your keyholder, the neighbour across the street or the property manager who looks after your resort house, so every visit shows in the app with the time and you know each one was expected.