Segurma alarms in Málaga
An alarm for your flat, your villa or your home on the Costa del Sol.
Málaga at a glance
Málaga is the province with more homes that spend long spells empty than anywhere else in Spain: Costa del Sol villas owned by people who live in northern Europe, apartments in Torremolinos or Torre del Mar shut from October to May, country houses in the Guadalhorce and the Axarquía, and flats in the city that empty out in August and at Easter. The Segurma alarm covers every one of those cases and its Alarm Receiving Centre alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil depending on the municipality. Here we explain it area by area.
Province of Málaga and neighbouring provinces · capital: Málaga. Base map: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CC BY 4.0).
- Who receives the alert
- The National Police or the Guardia Civil, depending on the municipality. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre has it on record for your address and sends the alert with the video of the intrusion.
- Region
- Andalusia · capital Málaga
- Areas covered in detail
- 8 comarcas and 16 towns mentioned on this page; Segurma installs across the whole province.
- Usual lead time
- Segurma technician within 24-48 h in Málaga and the surrounding area; elsewhere the date is confirmed in the survey.
- Price
- €24.90 a month for the first year, the same as everywhere in Spain; then €43.90 or €49.90 a month.
- Neighbouring provinces
What happens in Málaga when your alarm goes off
In the province of Málaga, public safety is handled by the National Police in the cities with a police station (Málaga, Marbella, Fuengirola, Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Estepona, Vélez-Málaga, Ronda and Antequera) and by the Guardia Civil everywhere else: Mijas, Rincón de la Victoria, Alhaurín de la Torre, Alhaurín el Grande, Cártama, Coín, Nerja, Torrox, Manilva and all the inland towns and villages. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) has on record, for every home, which of the two forces is responsible; the local police back them up in almost every municipality.
The sequence is always the same. A camera detector picks up movement in the living room while the system is armed, or a magnetic sensor notices the sliding door to the terrace opening. The control panel sends the ARC the signal, a few images of that moment and the audio from the room. An operator reviews them. If it is the gardener, who came in with his tag, nothing happens; if there is someone who should not be there, the alarm is confirmed as real and the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil with those images. You get the notification on the app at that same moment, whether you are in Málaga, Madrid or London, and you can watch the cameras live.
The alert is made by Segurma, an authorised security company registered with the National Private Security Register under number 3082. It is an alert verified with images: for the Guardia Civil post in Mijas or Rincón, that is the difference between a suspicion and a fact; in an urbanisation in Marbella where sirens go off and nobody pays attention, it is the difference between noise and a response.
Power cuts, homes without fibre and owners abroad
Many homes on the coast and inland have no fibre contract or spend months with nobody in them. The control panel has its own battery and communicates over the home line and over 4G/5G: if one route fails, the other keeps the link with the ARC. The app works from any country, so an owner who lives in Germany or the UK sees exactly what they would see from Fuengirola.
Where Segurma installs in Málaga province
Across the whole province, from Manilva to Nerja and from the coast to Ronda and Antequera. These are the areas and the type of home we usually find in each one.
Málaga city
Flats in the Centro, La Malagueta, Huelin, Carretera de Cádiz, Cruz de Humilladero, Ciudad Jardín, Bailén-Miraflores, Teatinos or El Cónsul, with plenty of ground-floor and first-floor flats facing the street and penthouses with a terrace; detached houses and villas in the east of the city (El Limonar, Cerrado de Calderón, El Candado, Pedregalejo, El Palo), in Churriana, Puerto de la Torre, Campanillas and the urbanisations around Los Montes. In a flat you protect the front door, any reachable terraces and windows and the hallway everyone has to pass through; in a villa, the perimeter.
Western Costa del Sol: Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Mijas
Holiday apartments in Torremolinos, Benalmádena Costa, Arroyo de la Miel and Fuengirola, and a great many villas and townhouses in Mijas Costa, La Cala, Calahonda, Riviera del Sol, Torrenueva, Benalmádena Pueblo or Torremuelle. Foreign owners and homes shut for half the year: outdoor detector, IP camera and an ARC that verifies.
Marbella, Estepona, Manilva and Casares
Villas and urbanisations in Nueva Andalucía, Elviria, Las Chapas, Guadalmina, San Pedro, Sierra Blanca, Los Monteros, La Duquesa or Sotogrande (already in Cádiz), apartments in Puerto Banús and Estepona, and country houses up in the hills. It is the area with more high-value homes shut for the season than anywhere else in Spain.
Axarquía: Rincón de la Victoria, Vélez-Málaga, Torre del Mar, Nerja, Torrox and Algarrobo
Beach apartments in Torre del Mar, Torrox Costa, Nerja and Rincón, townhouses in La Cala del Moral and Benajarafe, and country houses with a plot in the hills of the Axarquía (Frigiliana, Cómpeta, Sayalonga, Benamocarra), many of them owned by Europeans.
Guadalhorce Valley: Alhaurín de la Torre, Alhaurín el Grande, Cártama, Coín, Pizarra and Álora
Villa urbanisations (Pinos de Alhaurín, Lauro Golf, Alhaurín Golf), townhouses in Cártama Estación and a great many country houses with a plot. The area where squatting worries people most, because of the number of country houses left shut up.
Antequera and its comarca (district)
Antequera (National Police station), Archidona, Mollina, Humilladero, Campillos, Fuente de Piedra. Flats and village houses with a patio and backyard, cortijos (farmhouses) and country houses out in the vega.
Serranía de Ronda and Sierra de las Nieves
Ronda (National Police station), Arriate, Gaucín, Cortes de la Frontera, Yunquera, El Burgo, Tolox. Restored village houses, rural holiday homes and cortijos, with second homes belonging to families from the coast and from Seville.
Inland Málaga and Los Montes
Colmenar, Casabermeja, Almogía, Villanueva de la Concepción, Riogordo, Periana. Scattered country houses, cortijos and small villages with several ways in and few neighbours in sight.
Your town not listed? Segurma installs across the whole province; in the survey we tell you the lead time for your postcode.
How burglars get into homes in Málaga and what stops them
Home burglaries almost always happen with the house empty, in minutes, through the easiest way in. In Málaga, with so many villas, so many beach apartments and so many country houses, that way in is rarely the front door.
Flat in Málaga, Fuengirola or Vélez
The front door (old locks opened with a card or by bumping, or forced on a landing with no neighbours about), terraces and windows of ground-floor and first-floor flats reached from the street or from the roof of a commercial unit, and penthouses reached from the roof. A magnetic sensor on the door raises the alert at the first attempt; a camera detector in the hallway captures whoever comes in; the indoor siren makes an intruder in a block of flats leave.
Villa or townhouse in Marbella, Mijas, Benalmádena or Alhaurín
The intruder gets onto the plot from the back, checks from the garden whether anyone is in and goes for the living-room sliding door, a ground-floor window or the garage. The aluminium sliding doors of villas built in the eighties and nineties are the number-one way in on the coast. The outdoor detector picks them up on the plot; the IP camera with audio in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus lets you watch from your phone; the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil while they are still outside. In urbanisations with a guard on the gate, this is the inner layer that is missing.
Country house in the Guadalhorce, the Axarquía or the Serranía
Several ways in (main door, porch, garage, tool shed), a large plot and no neighbour in sight. Sensors on every access point, camera detectors on the route anyone has to take and an outdoor detector if the property is large. The control panel, with its battery and 4G/5G, keeps the link with the ARC even if the power goes off.
When it happens
August and Easter in the city, when half of Málaga goes away; winter in the apartments and villas on the coast, shut from October to May; bank-holiday weekends in country houses; and summer weekends in the city's flats. With the alarm armed and connected, those days stop being any different.
Anti-squatter alarm in Málaga: shut-up villas, country houses and inherited flats
Málaga, with the Costa del Sol and the Guadalhorce, is the province where most people ask us about squatting. And the reason is simple: there has never been so much housing standing empty for so many months. Villas owned by people who live in northern Europe, beach apartments out of season, country houses that get little use, inherited flats in the city. These are exactly the homes where a squat takes weeks to be discovered.
If the entry is detected while it is happening, with images of a person forcing the sliding door, the National Police or the Guardia Civil can act on an offence in progress. If you find out when you arrive at Easter, what is left is a court procedure. The whole point of an anti-squatter alarm is that first minute.
What the system does in an empty house
- The magnetic sensors on doors, windows and sliding doors raise the alert at the first attempt to open them, not once the intruder has already changed the lock.
- The camera detector takes images of whoever comes in and sends them to the ARC, which verifies them and alerts the police with those images.
- The warning sign and the siren stop the villa looking abandoned, which is the first thing someone looks for when choosing a home to squat.
- With the IP camera in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look at the house from your phone, whether you are in Málaga, Madrid or Stockholm.
The legal side, in brief
There are two separate offences: breaking into a dwelling (allanamiento de morada), when someone enters an inhabited home (including a holiday home that is in use), and usurpation (usurpación), when they enter a property that is nobody's dwelling. Both have gone through the fast-track court procedure since April 2025, but in practice the difference is still the same: an intrusion detected and verified at the time allows action on the spot, and a completed squat ends up in court. If you already have a squat under way, see a lawyer; we do not give legal advice here.
More detail, with the full protocol, on the Segurma anti-squatter alarm page.
Holiday homes on the Costa del Sol and in the Axarquía
Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, La Cala, Calahonda, Marbella, Estepona, Torre del Mar, Torrox, Nerja: the Costa del Sol is the biggest concentration of holiday homes in Spain, with owners from Madrid, Seville, Córdoba and half of Europe. They are homes that open up in summer and on bank-holiday weekends and stay shut the rest of the year, in buildings and urbanisations where in January hardly anyone lives.
What a house like that needs is not a siren, which nobody hears in an empty urbanisation in February, but someone to check what is going on and alert the police, and the ability to look at the house yourself from your phone. The Kit Tranquilidad covers the first; the Kit Tranquilidad Plus adds the IP camera with audio for the second. In villas with a garden, the outdoor detector raises the alert before anyone touches the sliding door.
The system is wireless and needs no building work, so there is no need to ask the community of owners for permission or touch the house. It communicates over 4G/5G as well as the home line, so you do not need a fibre contract at the holiday home. And the app and the ARC work in Spanish; if the owner would rather deal with things in English, tell us during the survey.
Everything that changes when the house sits empty for months: alarm for holiday homes.
Which kit for each home in the province
The final kit is decided in the survey; these are the combinations that come up most often in Málaga. Tap your type of home to see which kit it needs and what it includes.
Flat in Málaga, Fuengirola or Vélez-Málaga
Kit Tranquilidad: control panel, keypad, indoor siren, two camera detectors (hallway and living room), magnetic sensor on the front door, key fob remote and tags. In ground-floor flats, first-floor flats and penthouses, magnetic sensors on reachable terraces and windows too.
Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
Camera detector
Magnetic sensors
Indoor siren
Keypad
Villa in Marbella, Mijas, Benalmádena or east Málaga
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an IP camera to see the garden and the entrance from your phone and an outdoor detector for the plot. Sensors on the living-room sliding doors, on the garage door if it connects with the house and on the doors that open onto the garden.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
Outdoor detector
IP camera with audio- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Townhouse in Alhaurín, Cártama, Rincón or La Cala
Kit Tranquilidad with sensors on the front door, the patio sliding door and the garage, and a camera detector in the living room. If the patio backs onto a communal area or open country, an outdoor detector.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Beach apartment in Torremolinos, Torre del Mar or Estepona
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with the IP camera as the main reason; magnetic sensor on the front door and on the terrace if it can be reached from outside. Out of season, what you want is to look at the apartment and have the ARC check every alert.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Magnetic sensors
- IP camera with audio
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Country house or cortijo
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an outdoor detector and sensors on every access point (main door, porch, garage, tool shed). Control panel with 4G/5G and a battery for power cuts; the Guardia Civil receives a verified alert.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- IP camera with audio
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Shop or business in Málaga or on the coast
For a beach bar, a shop, a pharmacy, a restaurant or an office the set-up changes (IP camera with audio, panic button, arming schedules) and VAT is not included in the monthly fee. It is all explained on the business alarms page.
Typical situations in Málaga
Three situations that come up time and again in survey calls from the province, described in general terms in case yours looks similar.
The Mijas Costa or Nueva Andalucía villa of an owner who lives in northern Europe
Shut six or eight months a year, with a garden and sliding doors. An outdoor detector, sensors on every sliding door and door, an IP camera to look at it from their own country and an ARC that checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil or the National Police with the images.
The Torremolinos or Torre del Mar apartment of a family from Córdoba or Madrid
Opened in July and at Easter; the rest of the year, a half-empty building. Sensor on the door and on the terrace, a camera detector in the living room, Kit Plus to look at it from home. No fibre: the control panel communicates over 4G/5G.
The country house in Coín, Alhaurín or the Axarquía where squatting is the worry
Large plot, several ways in, no neighbour in sight. Sensors on every access point, an outdoor detector, a warning sign and an IP camera: any entry is detected in the first minute and the ARC alerts the Guardia Civil while it is happening.
Common mistakes when protecting a home in Málaga
Some mistakes come up in almost every survey call in the province. These are the ones we hear most.
- Relying on the urbanisation's gatehouse. In Marbella, Mijas, Benalmádena or Alhaurín the guard on the gate checks the cars; they do not see whoever climbs over the back wall of your plot. The connected alarm is the inner layer.
- Protecting only the front door and forgetting the sliding doors. In the villas and apartments on the coast the living-room sliding door is the number-one way in. A magnetic sensor on each one.
- Leaving the country house with nothing because "there's no internet". The control panel communicates over 4G/5G and has a battery: in the Guadalhorce, the Axarquía or the Serranía it works without fibre and rides out power cuts.
- A standalone camera instead of an Alarm Receiving Centre. It shows you the burglary after the event from your own country; nobody checks it or calls the police. What counts is an operator looking at the images at the time and alerting the police with them.
- Waiting until Easter to see how the apartment is. A shut-up home with no sign and no alarm is the perfect candidate for a squat which, by the time you discover it, is already a matter for the courts.
- Not mentioning the dog. A detector that does not allow for the pet goes off every five minutes and ends up switched off; in the survey it is positioned so the pet does not set it off.
What works
Covering the real ways into your home (sliding doors included), having the alarm connected to an ARC that verifies before alerting, an indoor siren so the intruder leaves and the app so you know straight away from any country. In the province with more shut-up homes than anywhere else in Spain, that combination is what stops a burglary or a squat from being completed.
Price of the Segurma alarm in Málaga
The price is the national one Segurma publishes; in Málaga there is no surcharge for the coast or for inland areas.
- Control panel connected 24/7 to Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre
- Camera detectors for verification
- Keypad, indoor siren and key fob remote
- Police alert with video and audio
- Mobile app to control everything
- Everything in Kit Tranquilidad
- IP surveillance camera with audio
- Live view from your phone
- Additional coverage detector
- Recording and visual verification
Both kits come with the control panel with battery and 4G/5G, keypad, indoor siren, warning sign, camera detectors, key fob remote and tags, and the app. Additional elements (outdoor detector, extra magnetic sensors for sliding doors, smoke detector, a second IP camera) are quoted in the survey with their own monthly fee. The minimum contract term and the cancellation conditions are set by the Segurma contract; we give them to you in writing before you sign. Full breakdown and 24-month cost on the Segurma prices page.
The parts of the alarm, one by one
The elements most often added in Málaga: magnetic sensors, outdoor detector, ip camera with audio. Everything is decided in the survey according to your home; here is each part explained in plain language, with its fee when it is an extra.
Guide prices for add-on parts (monthly fee, VAT included). The control panel and the parts in your kit are included in the monthly fee; the system is extended to suit your home's needs after a free survey.
Installation in Málaga: lead times and the visit
In Málaga city and on the Costa del Sol, Segurma's technician usually installs within 24 to 48 hours of the sign-up being completed; in Ronda, Antequera and the inland villages the lead time is confirmed in the survey according to the area's schedule. If the owner is not in Spain, the visit is arranged with whoever holds the keys.
We talk about your home
Flat, villa, townhouse, beach apartment or country house; ways in and sliding doors; pets; how long it stands empty. We propose a kit in writing with the month-13 fee clearly shown.
The technician comes
In a single visit Segurma's technician fits the control panel, the detectors and the siren, with no chasing into walls and no visible cables, tests that everything communicates and shows you how to arm, disarm and use the app.
You are connected
The house is linked to the ARC day and night and the alert to the National Police or the Guardia Civil, depending on your municipality, is set up.
Segurma Alarmas runs this website and takes care of advising you, doing the survey and processing the sign-up. Installation, maintenance and the Alarm Receiving Centre are Segurma's responsibility, and it is with Segurma that you sign the contract.
What Segurma customers say
4.5 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 758 reviews: that is the rating of Segurma's service across Spain, collected and verified by Trustpilot, with no involvement from us. The reviews that help most when deciding, with the critical ones and the company's replies, are on the Segurma reviews page.
Questions about the alarm in Málaga
The National Police in Málaga, Marbella, Fuengirola, Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Estepona, Vélez-Málaga, Ronda and Antequera, which have a police station, and the Guardia Civil in the other municipalities (Mijas, Rincón, Alhaurín, Cártama, Coín, Nerja, Manilva and so on). Segurma's ARC has it on record for your address and raises the alert after checking with video and audio that the intrusion is real. You get the notification on the app at the same time.
€24.90 a month for the first 12 months (VAT, equipment and installation included) and, from month 13, €43.90 a month for the Kit Tranquilidad or €49.90 a month for the Kit Tranquilidad Plus. The promotion ends on 31 October. Same price all over Spain; additional elements are quoted in the survey.
Yes. The survey is done by phone, the installation is arranged with whoever holds the keys and the app works from any country. Segurma's ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil or the National Police with the images; you get the notification at the same time. If you would rather deal with things in English, tell us when you request the survey.
It works by detecting the entry at the moment it happens, which is when the Guardia Civil can act on an offence in progress. Sensors on every access point, an outdoor detector on the plot, a camera detector on the route anyone has to take and a warning sign; Segurma's ARC verifies the images before raising the alert. A squat discovered weeks later is already a matter for the courts; the alarm is there so you never get to that point.
It is one of the homes where it makes the most sense. Out of season nobody is going to notice a break-in; with the alarm connected, any opening or movement reaches Segurma's ARC, which checks it and alerts the National Police if there is someone inside. With the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look at the apartment from your phone. You do not need fibre: the control panel communicates over 4G/5G.
The urbanisation's security covers the entrance and the communal areas, not the inside of your plot or your house. The connected alarm covers exactly that: if someone climbs over the wall or forces a sliding door, Segurma's ARC sees it, checks it and alerts the National Police, as well as the urbanisation's security service if you set it up that way. The two layers complement each other.
Yes. The whole province of Málaga is within Segurma's service area. In cortijos and isolated houses the lead time may vary according to the area's schedule; it is confirmed in the survey along with the proposed kit. The control panel communicates over 4G/5G where the landline is poor.
Segurma is a national security company based in Loiu (Bizkaia), with its own Alarm Receiving Centre and technicians who install across the whole province of Málaga. Segurma Alarmas, which runs this website, sells its systems: we advise you, do the survey and handle the sign-up; the service and the contract are Segurma's.
Nearby provinces
If your home is in a neighbouring province, it has its own page with the police protocol and the areas covered there. The provinces with an English page are listed under Segurma alarms by province; the rest are in Spanish.
Tell us about your home in Málaga and we tell you what it needs
A call of a few minutes, a kit proposed in writing and you decide at your own pace. Equipment and installation included in the monthly fee.