Home care and keyholding in Estepona

We look after your home while you're away: one visit a month or one a week, depending on the plan, with photos and video of each visit, keyholding and checks on locks and utilities. If you wish, we install a camera you can access, a door-opening sensor and smart-home control. If something breaks, our own team fixes it. In Estepona, 44.95% of homes are not main residences and 42.5% of the stock is in buildings predating 1991.

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   1. Visits with a report and photos

   One visit a month or one a week, depending on the plan. On each visit we check locks and access points, signs of occupation, water and possible leaks, power and general condition, and document it with photos and video in your owner area.

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   2. Keyholding

   We hold your keys under control, with a limited number of authorised people, and let in tradespeople, deliveries or you on arrival.

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   3. Technology, if you want it

   A camera you can access, a front-door opening sensor with alerts, motion and noise sensors, and smart-home access control. Most useful when the home is empty.

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   4. Repairs by our own team

   Plumbing, electrics, air conditioning and building work are done by our own people. That's the difference from a keys-only company: there's no one to go looking for.

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   5. Signs of occupation

   We check locks and access points on every visit and tell you if we see anything, within the timescales agreed in writing. What we don't do, because it is a matter for the police or the courts, is take part in an eviction.

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   6. Extras, depending on your home

   Pool and garden, mail and parcels, meeting tradespeople or having the home cleaned before you arrive. They go in the proposal, not in a fixed package.

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   Local rules in Estepona

   Estepona has two municipal rules of its own that bear directly on anyone who does not live here all year. The first is the ordinance on fencing, cleaning and upkeep of plots: it notes that **the whole municipality is classified as a forest-fire danger zone**, requires plots and vacant lots to be kept free of scrub and dry grass and trees and shrubs free of dead material, forbids disposing of the cuttings by burning on urban and developable land, and requires water tanks to be fenced or made inaccessible. The second is the technical building inspection ordinance, which covers every building over 30 years old. It matters more here than elsewhere: 42.5% of Estepona's homes are in buildings predating 1991. An honest caveat: that ordinance is from 2007 and was issued under an Andalusian act that has since been replaced, so it is worth confirming with the council what is required today before commissioning anything. On tax, urban IBI is 0.662%, with no rates differentiated by use and no surcharge on vacant homes.

   BOP de Málaga núm. 250, 31-12-2024 · tasa de residuos de Estepona (edicto 5445/2024)