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Fuengirola is one of the most British towns on the Costa del Sol: a compact seafront of apartment blocks running into Los Boliches, an English-speaking community that lives here all year, and a second wave that arrives for the winter.
Homes in Fuengirola
Most homes here are apartments, in blocks along the seafront and in Los Boliches and the town centre, with urbanisations climbing towards Torreblanca, Carvajal and the Mijas border. In a flat, the way in is almost always the front door or a terrace on the lower floors, so that is where the protection goes first.
Neighbourhoods
Every part of Fuengirola is covered. These are the areas we are asked about most, and what the homes there are usually like.
The streets behind the Paseo Marítimo are packed with apartment blocks, shops and bars. Many flats are let to holidaymakers or used by their owners for a few months a year, and street-level doors and first-floor balconies are the usual weak points.
The eastern half of the seafront, with its own train stop and a long run of apartment buildings. Popular with British retirees who stay all winter and head home in the hottest months.
On the hill above the eastern end of town, with townhouses and small villas built on slopes and views over the sea. More terraces and garden doors than a seafront flat, so the survey counts them all.
On the border with Benalmádena, a quieter area of apartment complexes and townhouses close to the beach, with a high share of second homes.
Inland from Los Boliches, a residential district of apartments and terraced houses where most people live all year rather than just for the holidays.
Up on the hillside towards Benalmádena, a newer area of developments and villas, many in gated communities, with wide views down the coast.
Also covered: Santa Amalia. Not listed? Put your postcode in the form and we confirm it.
The right set-up
The free survey decides the final kit, but this is what we usually fit in Fuengirola, depending on the kind of home.
For a seafront or Los Boliches flat, the Kit Tranquilidad is usually all you need: a door sensor on the entrance, camera detectors in the hall and living room, a keypad by the door and the indoor siren. On lower floors, add a sensor for each terrace door.
Townhouses in Torreblanca or Los Pacos usually have a front door, a patio or garden door and a roof terrace. Each of those gets a sensor, and a camera detector covers the main living area that anyone coming in would have to cross.
Villas on the hillside above town are where the Kit Tranquilidad Plus earns its place: the IP camera lets you look in from the UK, and an outdoor detector on the garden side gives the alert before anyone reaches the house.
Local advice
Put a sensor on every terrace door, not just the front door. Lower-floor terraces are the easiest way into a flat.
Keep the alarm armed for the months you are in the UK and check it from the app. If something happens in July, you know in July.
Give them a contactless tag instead of a code, or disarm for them from your phone when they arrive.
Local guide
Most of the calls we get from Fuengirola are about flats: a one or two-bedroom apartment near the seafront, used for the winter or lent to family, and empty for weeks at a time. The questions are nearly always the same. Will the alarm work if the internet is cut? Can the cleaner get in? What happens if it goes off at night while I’m in Manchester? The answers are yes, yes, and a person checks the camera images before the police are called, while the alert reaches your phone.
If your flat is on the ground or first floor, think about the terrace before the front door. Lower terraces in Los Boliches and the centre can often be reached from the street or a neighbouring balcony, so a sensor on that door matters as much as the one on the entrance. In townhouses up in Torreblanca or Los Pacos, count every door that opens to the outside, including the roof terrace.
Finally, keep it simple for whoever looks after the place. A contactless tag for the cleaner and one for your key holder means nobody has to remember a code, and you can see in the app exactly when each person came and went.
Living with an alarm in Fuengirola
Fuengirola never really empties, but it changes with the seasons. Many British owners spend October to April here and the summer back home, while holiday flats fill up in July and August with a different crowd every week. That rhythm is what the alarm has to fit: armed for the months you are away, disarmed for the cleaner on changeover day, and checked from your phone in between.
Squatting is a real worry for owners of empty flats on the Costa del Sol, and Fuengirola’s apartment blocks are no exception. The key in Spain is speed: if the police are alerted while someone is forcing the door, they can act on the spot, whereas once people have settled in, getting them out usually means going to court. A monitored alarm verified on camera is designed for exactly that window.
Málaga airport is a short drive or train ride away, so many owners fly in for the installation and are home again the same week. If you can’t be here, a neighbour, a family member or your property manager can let the technician in and be shown how everything works. In much of Andalusia, installation is often done within a day or two of signing up.
How it protects you
The same thing happens whether you are asleep in the UK or at the beach down the road.
A door opens or a camera detector picks up movement, and the images go to Segurma’s monitoring centre.
An operator looks at the images before anyone is called, so false alarms do not send the police to your door.
With the images as evidence: a report from a licensed security company, not a vague call from a neighbour.
The alert reaches your phone wherever you are, and the siren lets the intruder know they have been seen.
While you are away
Take a first-floor flat in Los Boliches, a street back from the Paseo Marítimo, that a family from Leeds uses at Easter and for most of August. In February it is a holiday home with the shutters down, and its terrace sits just above the awning of the café on the ground floor. One wet night that month, somebody climbs up from the awning and forces the terrace door. In Leeds, your phone lights up on the bedside table. With the Kit Tranquilidad there is no camera for you to open, and you don’t need one: the camera detector in the living room has already sent its pictures and sound to Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, and somebody there is looking at them for you.
What the operator sees is a man with a torch crossing your rug, not a curtain lifting in the levante. So the police are called with those pictures in hand, and the indoor siren starts while he is still between the sofa and the bedroom door. That is what an alarm connected to the police means in a seafront block: the police are not answering a vague call, they have the address, the floor and pictures of the person inside. This time he goes back over the railing with nothing, and you are sitting up in Leeds, wide awake but not guessing. You do not have to ring anyone in Spain at that hour, or decide whether it is worth waking the man on the third floor.
The help comes from the third floor. Your neighbour up there, a retired Glaswegian who spends every winter in Los Boliches, has had a spare key and one of your three tags since you bought the flat. He goes down when the porter starts his morning shift, looks at the damage with him, and rings a locksmith he has used before in Los Boliches. By lunchtime the frame is straightened and the lock replaced, and you have followed it all from Leeds: his tag in, his tag out, then the alarm armed again from your phone once the van has gone.
By August the flat is full again and the apartment alarm is simply part of the holiday: a tag at the keypad when you come up from the beach, armed when you walk along to the port for dinner, a glance at the app if you can’t remember whether you did. On the last morning you set it from the train to the airport as it pulls out of Los Boliches. After that, the flat stops being the thing you lie awake about in Leeds. If anyone tries that terrace again, somebody sees it first, the police hear about it with proof, and the man on the third floor still has his key.
Questions
Anything else? Ask us on WhatsApp, in English.
Yes. A porter covers the entrance during working hours; the alarm covers your own flat around the clock, and the monitoring centre checks every alert before calling the police.
Yes. Disarm the alarm from the Segurma app when they arrive, or give them their own tag so you can see when they come and go.
In much of Andalusia it is often a day or two after signing up. Tell us when you or a keyholder can be at the flat.
Yes. All of Fuengirola is covered, postcode 29640, from Carvajal on the Benalmádena side to the Mijas border.
Yes. The control panel connects over the 4G/5G mobile network as well as the internet, so it works even where there is no fibre in the flat.
Of course. Most owners arm it when they go out or go to bed, and leave it fully armed for the months they are back in the UK. You do it from the keypad or the app.
Someone needs to be at the property to let the technician in and be shown how the system works: you, a family member or someone you trust. If you'd rather be there yourself, we'll fit the date around your next trip.
Segurma, a Spanish security company founded in 1986 and listed in the Ministry of the Interior's National Private Security Register under no. 3082. Its own technicians install the system and its own Alarm Receiving Centre watches over it 24 hours a day.
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