Independent guide
By Linus Palmqvist, Head of Operations Reviewed by Simon Nilsson Last reviewed SICOR is the alarm business of the El Corte Ingles group. It runs its own monitoring centre, has a full English website, and includes maintenance in the monthly fee. The current offer runs for 24 months.
A solid mainstream choice, and one of the easier ones to handle in English.
The facts worth knowing before you talk to them, and the ones you can check yourself.
The group formed SICOR in 2020 and launched the alarm brand in 2021.
An introductory rate for the first months, then a standard one. Ask for both figures.
More than 200 licensed operators. SICOR runs the centre rather than renting space in one.
Mobile and Wi-Fi at the same time, plus photo and video confirmation. Grade 2 certified.
Offices include Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Palma. Confirm your own address with them.
Maintenance is included in the monthly fee rather than billed separately.
The name that should appear on your contract. Registered as DGP 4717.
Go to SICOR yourself, or let us handle the Spanish side. Both work.
Free, and you are not committed to SICOR.
Signing up is straightforward, and the quote covers most of it. These three are the ones worth pinning down before you sign.
The opening rate runs for the first few months, then moves to the standard one. Ask for both figures and the date they change.
Relocating can restart the commitment with some companies. Ask how SICOR handles it before you plan a move.
Ask for the figure at month 14 and at month 25. Those sit either side of the minimum term, so together they show what the commitment costs.
SICOR is better set up for English speakers than most of this market. There is a full English website and the app runs in English, so browsing and day-to-day use are straightforward.
Both available in English, and the English site carries the current offer rather than being a thin translation.
No company in this market promises an English-speaking operator when an alarm goes off, and SICOR is no exception. Plan on that conversation being in Spanish.
Spanish, like every alarm contract here. This is the part we do with you: we read it, explain what you are committing to, and deal with the company on your behalf.
Worth reading a few yourself rather than going on the number alone.
2,520 reviews. 74% five star, 5% one star. Checked 25 July 2026.
The praise almost always goes to the salesperson and the installer. The complaints are more consistent: the app, slow support, difficulty cancelling, and moving house restarting the commitment.
Six companies dominate monitored home alarms in Spain. This is the short version, ordered alphabetically. The full table, including how each one verifies an alarm before the police are called, is on the comparison page.
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Written by
Head of Operations at Settlewell
Linus moved from Sweden to Málaga in 2021 and set his own home up here, so most of this he has already done the hard way once. Before Settlewell he spent years at Workwide, the cross-border recruiter that has helped over 10,000 people into jobs abroad, latterly as its Head of Recruitment and Operations. He speaks Spanish, lives in Málaga with his partner, and spends his days on the phone to Spanish providers.
Company identity and registration come from the national register of security companies. The rules on installation, verification and police notification come from Spanish law. Contract points come from the current SICOR offer, and review figures are a dated snapshot from one named platform. Where SICOR does not publish something, we say so.
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