Securitas Direct alarms across Catalonia

How it's installed and what it costs across Catalonia

The process is the same in every corner of Catalonia and there's no upfront cost. You request a free security survey, an adviser assesses your property — in person or remotely — and a local technician installs the system in a few hours, without any building work and without leaving a mess. It's up and running, and explained to you, the same day. Because Securitas Direct (Verisure) has its own technical service across the territory, there's a technician in your area whether you're in the Barcelonès, the Empordà, the Camp de Tarragona or a Pyrenean valley.

The price depends on the type of property, the number of entry points and the equipment, with installation included. As a rough guide, a simple home starts at around €29.90/month and a business at around €56.62/month, but the fixed figure for your case is given to you free and in writing after the survey — no surprises. You can see the detail on the Securitas Direct (Verisure) alarm prices page and ask for a quote with no obligation.

One question that comes up a lot is whether a beach apartment or a mountain house needs a different survey from a main residence. It doesn't cost you anything extra to find out: the adviser looks at how the property is built, how it's accessed and how long it stands empty, and recommends only what genuinely protects it — no more sensors than the case calls for. The result is a system that fits a studio in Barcelona and a farmhouse in the Segrià equally well, each one priced for what it actually needs.

Shops, businesses and industry across Catalonia

It isn't only homes. Catalonia has a dense fabric of shops, offices, warehouses and industrial units, from the retail streets of Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona, Lleida, Reus, Sabadell or Terrassa to the industrial estates of the Vallès, the Baix Llobregat and the Camp de Tarragona. A business has its own kind of exposure: it's full of stock and equipment, it stands empty overnight and at weekends, and a break-in can mean losing far more than the value of what's stolen — days of downtime, a broken shopfront, an insurance claim.

For premises, the approach is zone-by-zone protection with surveillance outside opening hours, image verification so the ARC knows whether a trigger is real, and per-employee access so you can see who opens and closes. Whether it's a corner shop, a restaurant, a workshop or a distribution warehouse, business alarms are set up around the rhythm of your business, not the other way round.

Squatting and empty homes: the case for detecting entry early

Squatting is one of the worries that comes up most often in Catalonia, especially for anyone with a home that stands empty — a second residence on the coast, an inherited flat, a property between tenants. The uncomfortable truth is that a reinforced lock alone does little once a property is known to be empty; what really protects it is a system that notices the entry the instant it happens. The Securitas Direct (Verisure) alarm detects the intrusion, verifies it by image at the Alarm Receiving Centre and raises the alert straight away — to the authorities and to you — without depending on a neighbour noticing and picking up the phone.

That early warning is exactly the difference between a break-in interrupted in its first minutes and a situation that drags on for weeks. It matters just as much in the isolated farmhouses of Ponent, where the nearest neighbour can be far away, as it does in a shuttered Costa Brava villa in November. The system keeps watch when you can't, and the ARC is manned around the clock, every day of the year.

The four provinces, from the coast to the Pyrenees

Each Catalan province brings its own security profile. The province of Barcelona concentrates the highest demand, mixing urban flats in the Barcelonès with houses and gardens across the Vallès, the Maresme and the Baix Llobregat, and a huge base of shops and industry. The province of Girona is defined by the Costa Brava and its second homes, alongside the year-round life of Girona, Figueres, Olot and Blanes, and the empty village houses of the Empordà, the Garrotxa and the Cerdanya.

The province of Tarragona pairs cities like Tarragona and Reus with the holiday stretch of the Costa Daurada — Salou, Cambrils, l'Ametlla de Mar — and the quieter Terres de l'Ebre and inland counties. And the province of Lleida, the largest and most rural, runs from the farms and isolated homes of Ponent to the mountain second homes of the Pyrenees and the Val d'Aran, where long distances make a 24/7 connected response worth even more. Pick your province below to get down to the detail for your own town.

Comparison and reviews across Catalonia

Before you decide, it helps to compare and to read what real customers say. In our alarm comparison you can put Securitas Direct (Verisure) side by side with Prosegur, ADT or Sector Alarm, feature by feature — what really counts isn't the length of the spec sheet, but what happens the moment the alarm goes off: the own Alarm Receiving Centre, image verification and operation with no power or wifi. And on our verified reviews page you'll find ratings gathered on Trustpilot, more than 68,000 of them, where customers across Catalonia highlight the technician's punctuality, the clarity of the explanation and the speed of response. Then choose your province to see the picture for your own area.

Alarms by province in Catalonia

Choose your province to see local information on Securitas Direct (Verisure) — prices, comparison and reviews for your area —, from the Barcelona metropolitan area and the Costa Brava to the Costa Daurada, the Terres de l'Ebre and the Pyrenees. Each provincial page then links through to your own county and town.