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Orihuela Costa is a string of urbanisations along the coast south of Torrevieja: Playa Flamenca, La Zenia, Cabo Roig, Campoamor and more. British owners make up a large share of the people here, and many homes are only lived in for part of the year.
Homes in Orihuela Costa
The typical home is a townhouse or bungalow with a patio and a solarium, or an apartment around a communal pool. Around the golf courses at Villamartín, Las Ramblas and Campoamor there are also detached villas on bigger plots.
Neighbourhoods
Every part of Orihuela Costa is covered. These are the areas we are asked about most, and what the homes there are usually like.
A busy area with shops, bars and a popular market, surrounded by townhouses, bungalows and apartments.
Known for its beach and the La Zenia Boulevard shopping centre, with apartment complexes and townhouses around communal pools.
A headland with a small marina, coves and a strip of restaurants, surrounded by villas and townhouses.
A golf urbanisation inland, with its own plaza of bars and restaurants and plenty of British-owned townhouses and apartments.
Golf resorts with villas and apartments on larger plots, quieter and more spread out than the coast.
Punta Prima sits next to Torrevieja, with frontline complexes; Los Dolses is a quiet inland area of bungalows and villas.
Also covered: Lomas de Cabo Roig. 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 Orihuela Costa, depending on the kind of home.
Apartments around a communal pool are covered by the Kit Tranquilidad, with a sensor on the terrace door if it faces the gardens.
Most townhouses have a front patio, a back door and a solarium. Each door gets a sensor (€1/month for extras), and a camera detector covers the living room.
Villas at Las Ramblas, Campoamor or Villamartín are best with the Kit Tranquilidad Plus and an outdoor detector on the garden side.
Local advice
Townhouses here often have three ways in. Cover them all, not just the front door.
Ground-floor apartments facing the pool are easy to approach unseen at night. A camera detector in the living room sees anyone who comes through the terrace.
Disarm while guests are in, re-arm when they leave, and see it all in the app.
Local guide
Orihuela Costa is mostly urbanisations, and most of the homes we protect there are townhouses, bungalows and apartments that are lived in for part of the year. Many owners split their time between here and the UK, lend the house to family, or let it in summer, so the alarm needs to cope with long absences and a few different people coming and going.
The typical townhouse has a front patio, a back door and a solarium, and all three are ways in. Ground-floor apartments facing a communal pool are easy to approach unseen at night. Covering every door, not just the front one, is the single most effective thing you can do, and extra sensors cost €1/month each.
Before you leave for the winter, arm the alarm from the app, leave a tag with your key holder, and let us know if anyone will be using the house. Golf villas at Las Ramblas, Campoamor or Villamartín are best with an outdoor detector, so the alert comes while someone is still outside.
Many communities on the coast have their own rules about what can be fitted on facades and shared walls. Because the Segurma kit is wireless and mostly fitted inside the home, it rarely raises any issue, but if you are unsure, ask your community administrator before the installation. The deterrent sign is small and is usually placed where it can be seen from the street or the gate, which is often enough to make someone try another house instead.
Living with an alarm in Orihuela Costa
Orihuela Costa is busy from Easter to October, when owners come out and holiday lets fill up. From November to March, many urbanisations are very quiet, and a lot of homes stand empty while their owners are back in the UK. That is precisely the time an alarm watched 24/7 is for.
Rows of empty townhouses in winter are what squatters look for, and the Costa Blanca has had plenty of cases. In Spain, an intrusion caught while it is happening is dealt with by the police on the spot; once people have moved in, it usually becomes a court case that can take months. A camera-verified alarm makes sure somebody acts while it is still happening.
Alicante-Elche airport is about 45 minutes away, and the Región de Murcia airport is a similar drive. If you are not here, a neighbour, a friend or your key holder can let the technician in. Installation is usually arranged within 1 to 5 days 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
Late autumn can bring a proper storm to the coast south of Torrevieja, the kind that turns the roads of Villamartín into streams and takes the electricity out across the urbanisation for a night. Picture your townhouse there, locked up since the end of the season, while you sit in Birmingham watching the weather warnings for the Vega Baja on your phone. The street is dark, the communal pool is full of palm fronds, and the Norwegian couple two doors up, who stay on until Christmas, have lost their lights as well. Their message on the community WhatsApp group says the whole of Villamartín is out and the golf course has turned into a lake.
You open the app, half expecting nothing, and it answers: the alarm is still armed. The control panel has switched to its backup battery and is talking to Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre over 4G/5G, so a blacked-out urbanisation changes nothing for it. That matters more than it sounds. A row of unlit townhouses after a storm is exactly when somebody tries a patio door, betting that no power means no alarm. If they did, the camera detector in your living room would show them to an operator as clearly as on any other night, and the police would be alerted with the images. An anti-squatter alarm is only worth having if it keeps reporting when the lights are out.
By morning the power is back, but the trip switch in your hall cupboard has dropped, so the fridge is off and the router is dead, which the alarm, on its mobile connection, does not mind at all. You message the Norwegian neighbours, who hold a spare key, and disarm the alarm for them from Birmingham. They go in, push the switch back up, check under the patio door for water and send you a photo of a dry floor. On the way out they stand your plant pots back up, the ones the wind had rolled across the patio. When they leave you arm it again, and the app shows it done before you have finished your toast.
That night is a fair picture of second home security on the Orihuela Costa: the weather, a neighbour with a key, and a house a long way from where you are. Through the winter, checking the app becomes a habit, a quick look after the forecast, and by March, when Villamartín starts filling up again, you have stopped asking the Norwegians to walk past at all. You can read the storm warnings for the Vega Baja from Birmingham and simply put the phone down. The house is armed, the panel has its own battery, and somebody is watching.
Questions
Anything else? Ask us on WhatsApp, in English.
Yes, the whole of Orihuela Costa, from Punta Prima down to Campoamor and the golf urbanisations inland.
Not for the alarm. We use the postcode, 03189 for most of Orihuela Costa, to confirm everything.
Installation is usually arranged within 1 to 5 days of signing up. Tell us your dates, or who can let the technician in.
Yes: Villamartín, Las Ramblas, Campoamor and the other urbanisations of Orihuela Costa.
A guard covers the gate and the grounds. The alarm covers your home itself and alerts the police with images, at any hour.
Yes. Disarm it from the app while guests are staying, turn off any indoor camera, and arm it again when they leave.
Yes. You disarm it from the app before guests arrive, turn off any indoor camera while they stay, and arm it again after the changeover clean. Your key holder or manager can also use a tag, and you see every step in 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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