Drake's House in Toronto, and the Drake Houses That Aren't His

Drake's house is in Toronto. He lives in the Bridle Path, the estate enclave in North York, in the limestone manor Ferris Rafauli designed for him and that he calls The Embassy. The lot, the map pin, and the rest of what we hold on it are on Drake's Toronto home profile.

The long version of his homes, from the 2016 city hearing on the Toronto plans to the California years, is in where does Drake live. This page does a different job. Type “Drake House” into a map or a search bar and the first answers have nothing to do with him: a shelter in Georgia, a colonial museum in New Jersey, a Southern restaurant in South Carolina, and a hotel in his own hometown. We sort those out below, along with a story about his neighbors that we told wrong in 2017.

His two California houses get one line each here. From 2012 to 2022 his base was the YOLO Estate, in a gated equestrian city in Los Angeles County, and its history is on the YOLO Estate profile. Since 2022 he has also owned an estate above Benedict Canyon, which he put on the market a year after buying it; see the Beverly Hills estate profile.

The neighbor line was a lyric

Our 2017 version of this page said that Drake, asked what he would do if neighbors complained about noise at the Toronto house, answered that he would buy their house, and that he had already done it in California after complaints about his pool parties. We could not find that interview, so the claim is gone.

What exists is a verse. On “Where Ya At,” Future's single with Drake, released on July 16, 2015, Drake raps “I'll buy the neighbours' house if they complain about the noise.”

The purchase that got attached to the line was real. In September 2016, Time, citing Trulia, reported that Drake had bought the house next door to the YOLO Estate and dated the deal to June 2015, about a month before the song came out. Neither Time nor NME turned up a complaint behind it, and NME presented the link as something fans had worked out for themselves. If the dates hold, the house came first and the boast about it came second.

Four Drake Houses that belong to someone else

Our 2017 page named three of these and put one of them in the wrong town. Here is what each one is.

Roswell, Georgia: a shelter named for Mary Drake

The Drake House in Roswell, in north Fulton County outside Atlanta, is a nonprofit that houses single mothers and their children who are homeless. It started as a community project in 2004 and opened its doors in June 2006. The name honors Mary Drake, a Roswell native who helped found North Fulton Community Charities. No relation to the rapper.

Plainfield, New Jersey: the house Washington used in 1777

We had this one in South Plainfield. It is in the city of Plainfield, in Union County, and South Plainfield is a separate town. Isaac Drake built the house in 1746 for his son Nathaniel, and George Washington met with his officers there during and after the Battle of Short Hills, fought across the Plainfield area in June 1777. The city owns it, and the Historical Society of Plainfield runs it as a public museum. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973, the federal list of buildings judged worth preserving, and it was already 240 years old when Aubrey Drake Graham was born.

Landrum, South Carolina: a meat-and-three

The Drake House in Landrum, a small town in upstate South Carolina, is a restaurant, now called Stax's Drake House. It serves Southern home cooking, a meat and three sides, out of a house built in the early 1900s that, by the restaurant's own account, once lodged railroad workers.

Toronto: the Drake Hotel on Queen West

The one most likely to fool a Drake fan is in his own city. The Drake Hotel on Queen Street West opened in 1890 as Small's Hotel, and new owners gave it the name the Drake in 1949, 37 years before the rapper was born. It spent the following decades sliding downhill, as a flophouse, then a punk bar, and briefly a rave den in the early 1990s.

Jeff Stober, a technology entrepreneur, bought it in 2001 and reopened it in 2004 as a boutique hotel. None of the histories we read connect it to the rapper.

What else changed since 2017

The 2017 page said Drake had spent the previous few years selling off his American real estate. He bought the Beverly Hills estate in 2022, so that line is gone. We also cut the net worth figure, the list of cars, the dating rumors, the ethnicity section, and the argument over whether he counts as a rapper. None of it rested on a source we would cite today, and none of it told you anything about where he lives. The houses themselves are on their profiles and in the longer homes story linked above.