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Mijas has one of the largest British communities on the Costa del Sol, spread between Mijas Pueblo, the coast at La Cala and Calahonda, and Las Lagunas next to Fuengirola.
Homes in Mijas
Most British-owned homes are on urbanisations such as Sitio de Calahonda, Riviera del Sol and El Faro: townhouses with roof terraces, apartments around communal gardens and villas on generous plots. Inland, around Valtocado and Campo Mijas, houses are more spread out and often have land around them.
Neighbourhoods
Every part of Mijas is covered. These are the areas we are asked about most, and what the homes there are usually like.
The white village on the mountainside, with townhouses on steep streets and villas in the countryside around it. Lovely views and very quiet nights.
The coastal village with its beach, its boardwalk and a mix of apartments, townhouses and villas. Many British residents live here all year.
One of the biggest urbanisations on the coast, with apartments, townhouses and villas spread over the hillside, and a lot of homes owned by British buyers.
Next to Calahonda, a hillside urbanisation of apartments and villas, many of them holiday homes used for part of the year.
The busy residential area next to Fuengirola, with apartment blocks and townhouses where people live and work all year.
Inland, with villas and fincas on larger plots, some at the end of country lanes, where an outdoor detector makes the biggest difference.
Also covered: El Faro. 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 Mijas, depending on the kind of home.
Apartments in Las Lagunas, La Cala or on the urbanisations are covered by the Kit Tranquilidad: entrance door, camera detectors, keypad and siren, and a sensor on each terrace door on lower floors.
Calahonda and Riviera townhouses usually have a patio door, a front door and a roof terrace that often connects to the neighbours’. All three get a sensor.
Villas in Valtocado, Campo Mijas or above La Cala are best with the Kit Tranquilidad Plus and one or more outdoor detectors, so you can look in from abroad and get the alert while someone is still in the garden.
Local advice
Places like Calahonda get very quiet midweek out of season. Arm the alarm even for short trips.
An outdoor detector raises the alert before anyone reaches the house, which is when the police can still catch them.
Townhouse roof terraces often connect to the neighbours’. Put a sensor on the door that leads down into the house.
Local guide
Mijas covers a big area, from the coast at La Cala and Calahonda to the village and the countryside behind it, so the homes we protect vary a lot. On the coast it is mostly apartments and townhouses on large urbanisations; inland, it is villas and fincas on plots, some a long way from the nearest neighbour.
On urbanisations, the risk comes from how quiet they get out of season. Townhouses with roof terraces connected to the neighbours’ need a sensor on the door that leads down into the house, and ground-floor apartments need the terrace covered. Inland, an outdoor detector is the single most useful extra, because it raises the alert while someone is still in the garden.
In the countryside, connection matters too. The control panel also works over 4G/5G with a backup battery, so it keeps reporting if the fibre goes down, and the technician checks the mobile signal at your property during the survey.
Living with an alarm in Mijas
Mijas has a big year-round British community, especially in La Cala and Calahonda, but many homes on the urbanisations are second homes used at Easter, in summer and at Christmas. Midweek in winter, whole streets can be quiet. That is when a monitored alarm earns its keep: armed while you are away, with every alert checked by a person and sent to your phone.
Large urbanisations with a lot of empty second homes are exactly where squatters look, and the Costa del Sol has had plenty of cases. In Spain, if the police are alerted while the door is being forced, they can deal with it on the spot; if nobody notices for weeks, it usually becomes a court case. The alarm’s job is to make sure somebody notices straight away.
Málaga airport is less than half an hour from La Cala and Las Lagunas. If you can’t be there for the installation, a neighbour, your property manager or a 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
Easter Monday, and the family is flying home to Dublin from the villa at El Faro, up the hill from the Calaburras lighthouse. The last thing you do in Spain is arm the alarm from the departure lounge at Málaga, somewhere between the coffee and the boarding call. Until the summer holidays, two people look after the place: the pool man on Mondays and the gardener on Thursday mornings, each with his own tag. So the app quietly keeps a diary of the house: who came in and when they left, and that nobody else came through the door. On Mondays the pool man’s tag shows mid-morning and again before lunch; on Thursdays the gardener stays longer when the bougainvillea needs cutting back. Most weeks you hardly look.
Then, on a Wednesday night in May, with half of El Faro still empty, the alert arrives. You open the IP camera in the living room, turn the sound up and hear the shutter on the kitchen door being forced. That is what people usually have in mind when they ask us about CCTV in Mijas: a live look into your own house from a kitchen in Dublin. But the decision is not left to you. The operator at Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre already has the images from the camera detector by the kitchen, two people with a torch, and has passed them to the police with the call. Inside, the siren starts, and the torch goes back out into the garden.
On Thursday morning the gardener turns up as usual, and his tag appears in the app at the usual time. He sends you photos of the bent shutter and the footprints in the flower bed, then rings a shutter fitter he knows in Las Lagunas, who drives up the coast road that afternoon. You watch some of the repair on the IP camera, then arm the villa again from Dublin once the van has gone back down the hill. When the pool man comes the following Monday, the diary in the app looks exactly as it did before.
July comes round, you land for the summer, and the house at El Faro feels just as it did at Easter. The first evening you disarm with your tag, open every shutter and walk down to the beach below the lighthouse, and the only sign of May is a new shutter on the kitchen door. A villa alarm that only made a noise would have left you in Dublin that Wednesday trying to work out which neighbour to wake. This one gave you a picture, gave the police the evidence and gave the gardener a tag, so the villa stops being something you check on from Dublin and goes back to being the place the children count down to all spring.
Questions
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Yes, all of Mijas. The postcodes are 29649 (around La Cala and Calahonda), 29650 (Mijas Pueblo) and 29651 (Las Lagunas).
Yes, with outdoor detectors at €6/month each. The free survey decides how many and where.
In much of Andalusia it is often a day or two after signing up.
Yes. The control panel also works over the 4G/5G mobile network, so it suits country houses where fibre is unreliable. The technician checks the signal during the free survey.
A patrol passes now and then. The alarm watches your home every second and reports at once to Segurma’s monitoring centre, where a person checks the images before alerting the police.
Yes. Most owners arm it when they go out or go to bed, and leave it fully armed for the months they spend in the UK.
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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