Home alarms on the Costa del Sol: protected wherever you are.

How we protect you

Home security on the Costa del Sol: how we protect you

On the Costa del Sol, the free survey starts with how you use the house and how someone would get into it. Take a villa on the hillside above Manilva or Casares, empty for weeks at a time, and it means three layers. An outdoor detector watches the garden and the pool, so the alarm reacts while someone is still outside. Sensors sit on the doors and windows onto the terraces, which on a sloping plot are often on two levels. Inside, camera detectors cover the living room and the corridor to the bedrooms, the keypad goes by the door you use, and the siren goes where it is heard all over the house.

Here is what a monitored alarm connected to the police does in practice. It is February, your townhouse near Burriana beach in Nerja is shuttered, and you are back in Bristol. Someone forces the patio door. The camera detector in the living room catches it on images and sound, and the first person to see them is an operator at Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, not a neighbour or the police. If somebody really is in the flat, the operator calls the police and passes on what the camera saw, the siren goes off, and your phone shows the alert wherever you are. If it was your daughter arriving a day early from Gatwick, or the friend who waters your bougainvillea, nobody is sent.

Owners who ask us about CCTV in Mijas usually want one thing: to see the terrace and the pool from home. The IP camera in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus gives you live view, with sound, in the Segurma app, and a large villa in Marbella or Estepona can add extra IP cameras. The same app arms the house as your taxi pulls away for Málaga airport, shows every alert, and lets you disarm for the pool man in Alhaurín without handing out a code. So when your phone buzzes over dinner in Dublin, you can open the camera and see the living room for yourself.

On the coast, the panel’s backup battery and its second route over 4G/5G mean a power cut or a fibre fault in a Benalmádena block does not leave your flat unwatched, and Segurma’s 24/7 monitoring carries on right through the months you are away. That changes the favours you ask of whoever stays on the Costa del Sol all year. Nobody has to walk past your Fuengirola flat to check the shutters are still down, or drive up to Frigiliana after a storm to see whether the doors held. If anything does happen, a person at the centre sees it, the police hear about it, and so do you.

When nobody is there

Holiday homes, empty months and squatters on the Costa del Sol

Homes on the Costa del Sol empty out in two rhythms. Many winter residents shut their flats in Torremolinos and Benalmádena in May and fly home before the heat, while families with a townhouse in Nerja or Manilva use it at Easter and in August and lock it up from September. Golf developments around Casares can be half asleep midweek in winter, and village houses in Cómpeta stand closed for months at a time. A flat with its shutters down all summer, or a townhouse with no car outside since Easter, is easy to read for anyone looking for an empty property, whether they want to steal from it or move in.

In a Torremolinos block, a forced door on the fourth floor looks like any other from the corridor, and the neighbours may be away too. Squatters who have already settled in usually need a court order and months to remove. Someone caught forcing the door is a different matter, because the police can deal with it on the spot. An anti-squatter alarm closes that gap: the camera images let the Alarm Receiving Centre alert the police during the break-in, and you hear about it at the same time. Give a tag to your property manager in Marbella or the neighbour who stays all year in Sabinillas, and the app shows who opened the door and when.