Home alarms on the Costa Tropical or in Granada: protected wherever you are.

How we protect you

Home security on the Costa Tropical or in Granada: how we protect you

Homes on the Costa Tropical are built into the slope, and that shapes how we protect them. A villa above La Herradura or Cotobro often has its front door at road level, with the living rooms and bedrooms stepping down towards the sea and the lowest terrace and the pool out of sight of the street. Whoever walks up to the front door can be seen from the road; whoever climbs up from the lower terraces cannot. A monitored alarm here starts from that second person.

So the technician works from the bottom up. Sensors go on the doors to the lower terraces and the pool, a camera detector covers the stairs that join the levels, because anyone moving through the house has to use them, another watches the main living room, and the keypad goes by the door you come in through at the top. In a seafront flat in Almuñécar or at Playa Granada in Motril it is simpler: the front door, any terrace within reach and a camera detector in the hall. It is a wireless alarm, which matters in houses whose back walls are concrete set into the hillside.

If a detector is set off, it records images and sound and sends them to Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, which provides 24/7 monitoring, Christmas Day included. An operator checks before anyone is called. If it is whoever tends your avocado terraces turning up early, or friends driving down from Granada for the weekend, nobody is sent. If it is a stranger on the stairs at night, the police are alerted with the images as evidence, the siren inside the house tells them they have been seen, and the alert reaches your phone. A burglar alarm that only makes a noise in an empty valley above Almuñécar helps nobody; one with a person behind it does.

Fibre does not reach every house in the hills, and a storm over the Sierra de Almijara can cut the power, but the control panel simply switches to the 4G/5G network and runs on its backup battery. From your phone you can arm the house on the drive to Málaga or Granada airport, disarm it when the pool man arrives in Salobreña and, with the Plus kit, look in on the lounge from wherever you are. That is why you can close the shutters, drive down the hill and stop thinking about the house: anything that happens there reaches someone who can act on it, and reaches you.

When nobody is there

Holiday homes, empty months and squatters on the Costa Tropical or in Granada

The Costa Tropical has its own rhythm. In July and August, and at weekends from spring onwards, Almuñécar and Salobreña fill with families driving down from Granada, and many of the seafront flats belong to them. From October those flats go quiet until Easter. The villas above La Herradura follow the opposite pattern: northern European owners arrive for the mild winter and leave again in spring. So whatever the month, part of every street on this coast is locked up.

A flat with its shutters down from October, or a casita on the terraces above Otívar that nobody visits for weeks, is what squatters look for. Timing is what matters: once squatters are settled, removing them usually means a court case and months of waiting, whereas police alerted during the break-in can act there and then. That only happens if someone sees it, which is exactly the job of the camera detectors and the operator watching them. Give a tag to the neighbour who keeps an eye on things, the person who works your finca or your property manager, so every visit shows in the app and you can tell at a glance that each one was expected.