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Málaga has changed fast. More English speakers now live and work in the city itself, in flats in the centre and around the port, and in the neighbourhoods to the east towards Pedregalejo, El Palo and Cerrado de Calderón.
Homes in Málaga
In the centre and Soho, homes are flats in older buildings and new conversions, often let to visitors part of the year. To the east, El Limonar and Cerrado de Calderón have houses with gardens, and Teatinos has the newer blocks.
Neighbourhoods
Every part of Málaga is covered. These are the areas we are asked about most, and what the homes there are usually like.
Flats in historic buildings and new conversions in the old town and the arts district by the port, many of them let to visitors for part of the year.
Apartment blocks by the city beach, a few minutes from the port and the centre.
A leafy hillside area of detached villas and gardens to the east of the centre.
Former fishing neighbourhoods by the sea, with townhouses, small flats and a growing number of newer homes.
A residential hillside area of villas and terraced houses above El Palo, with views over the sea.
A newer district near the university, with modern apartment blocks and family homes.
The right set-up
The free survey decides the final kit, but this is what we usually fit in Málaga, depending on the kind of home.
City flats are covered by the Kit Tranquilidad: entrance door, camera detectors, keypad and siren. Ground-floor flats and those with reachable balconies add a sensor there.
Townhouses in Pedregalejo or El Palo often open straight onto the street and have a patio or roof terrace at the back. Each door gets a sensor, with a camera detector in the main room.
Villas in El Limonar or Cerrado de Calderón are best with the Plus kit and an outdoor detector on the garden side.
Local advice
The kit is wireless, so it goes into a listed or older building without chasing cables through the walls.
Disarm while guests are in, arm again when they check out, and give your manager a tag rather than a code.
Garden doors and an outdoor detector are where the survey usually starts.
Local guide
Málaga has become a city where many English speakers live and work all year, so the homes we protect here are mostly lived in. The risk is different from a holiday home: a flat left for a fortnight in August, a property let to visitors that stands empty between bookings, or a house in El Limonar left while the family travels.
In the centre and Soho, many flats are in older buildings with a street door and a shared staircase. The wireless kit goes in without building work, and a sensor on your own door plus a camera detector in the hall covers the usual way in. Townhouses in Pedregalejo and El Palo usually need the street door and the back patio covered too.
If you let your flat to visitors, keep the routine simple: disarm when guests arrive, switch off any indoor camera while they stay, and arm again after they leave. Segurma has an office in Málaga, and installation is often done within a day or two.
Many people we help in Málaga have moved here for work or to retire and are still getting used to how things are done in Spain. That is where doing everything in English makes a difference: the quote, the contract and every question afterwards are explained clearly, in writing, before you sign anything. If something is unclear on installation day, when the Segurma technician may only speak Spanish, message us on WhatsApp and we will translate on the spot.
Living with an alarm in Málaga
Málaga is a city where people live and work all year, so the typical risk is a flat left empty for a holiday or a work trip, or a property let to visitors that stands empty between bookings. August and the weeks around Christmas are when many homes are left for longest.
City flats that are empty between lets, or while the owner is away, can attract squatters. In Spain the police can act at once if they are alerted during the intrusion; afterwards, it usually means a court case. A camera-verified alarm gets the alert out while it is still happening.
The airport is about 15 minutes from the centre, and Segurma has an office in Málaga. If you can’t be at home for the installation, a neighbour or family member can let the technician in. 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
You live in Pedregalejo all year, in a narrow townhouse a street back from the promenade, and you work in an office near the Alameda. At Christmas you fly to Galway, and the cat stays behind. You told the technician about her at the survey, so the detectors were placed with her in mind. Your neighbour across the street feeds her every evening with a tag on her keyring, and the app shows each visit, usually around the time the smoke from the sardine fires drifts up off the beach. It is a house that is hardly ever empty, which is why a fortnight away can feel longer than it is.
On the night of St Stephen’s Day, someone comes along the alley behind your row of houses, over the patio wall, and opens the back door into the kitchen. In Galway, the alert lands in the middle of a game of cards. At the Alarm Receiving Centre an operator opens the images from the camera detector in the kitchen and sees a man in a hood, not a cat on the worktop, so the call to the police goes out with those pictures. The siren starts inside, the cat shoots up the stairs, and the man goes back over the patio wall the way he came. That night is what a burglar alarm with a person behind it is for.
The next morning your neighbour lets herself in with her tag and finds the back door forced and the cat under your bed, cross but unhurt. The police had been round in the night with the pictures already in hand, so all she needs to do is let in the locksmith from El Palo, who changes the lock before lunch. She sends you a photo of the cat sitting on the new doormat, and tells the woman next door, whose patio backs onto the same alley, to keep an eye on that wall. In Galway, you see her tag go in and out, and you arm the house again from your phone before the leftovers come out.
Back at work in January, the alarm fits round an ordinary city week. If you leave for the office in a hurry, you arm it from your desk near the Alameda. If the plumber is booked while you are out, you disarm it for him from the same desk and arm it again when he messages to say he has finished. When you go away now, you ask the neighbour to feed the cat and nothing else. In a city where you live all year, a house alarm is less about empty months than about the odd week away, and in Pedregalejo the week away has stopped being the part you dread.
Questions
Anything else? Ask us on WhatsApp, in English.
Yes, Segurma has an office in Málaga. We look after you in English and Segurma’s technicians do the installation.
Yes. You disarm it from the app while guests are staying, turn off any indoor camera, and arm it again when they leave.
In much of Andalusia it is often a day or two after signing up.
Yes. The business kit includes a panic button instead of the remote, costs €24.90 + VAT for the first 12 months and has a 36-month term.
Yes. With the Segurma app you arm and disarm it, see every alert and let people in without sharing codes.
Most owners simply disarm it while guests are in and arm it again when they leave, with the indoor camera turned off during each stay.
Yes. We cover the whole city, from the centre and the eastern neighbourhoods to Teatinos and the newer districts to the west. Málaga postcodes start with 290; put yours in the form and we confirm the details straight away.
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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