Where Does Drake Live? Inside The Embassy, His Toronto Home

Drake lives in Toronto, the city he was born in, in the Bridle Path, an enclave of estate lots in North York on the city's north side. The house is a limestone manor designed by Ferris Rafauli, and Drake calls it The Embassy. When Robb Report added up his holdings in September 2025, this was still the house he stays in when he is home. He also owns an estate in the hills above Beverly Hills, which he has been trying to sell since the spring of 2023, and for ten years before that his California base was the YOLO Estate, which he sold in 2022.

The Toronto lot did not arrive with a mansion on it. A numbered Nova Scotia company bought it in September 2015 with a modest bungalow standing on the ground, and the company's directors included Drake's DJ, Adel Nur, known as Future the Prince. The bungalow came down to make room for what Drake had in mind.

The exact address is the part we keep behind the ropes. For the parcel, the ground around it, and the map pin, see Drake's Toronto home profile on Velvet Ropes.

A neighbourhood named for trails

The Bridle Path was farmland until the Bayview Bridge arrived in 1929. The developer Hubert Page and his brother Forsey, a designer, laid it out as an estate enclave and named it for the network of riding trails they planned to run through it. George Montegu Black Jr. built a house there in the middle of the century, took over the company that owned the surrounding land, and wrote his own rules into North York's by-law: single-family houses only, on lots of at least two acres. In plain terms, nobody can split a lot here into smaller ones, which is why the streets still read as a string of estates rather than a suburb.

That rule is what drew people who wanted room. By the time Drake's plans went before the city in 2016, The Globe and Mail counted the former media owner Conrad Black and the singer Gordon Lightfoot among the neighbours, and the lot he bought ran to about two acres, with close to 100 trees on it. Mean Girls filmed in the neighbourhood too.

What the city signed off on in 2016

Anything bigger than the by-law allows has to go to the city's committee of adjustment, a panel that hears requests to bend the zoning rules one property at a time. Drake's went to the North York panel in May 2016, and the drawings filed with it spelled out the house in unusual detail.

The Globe read them. The basement was to hold a basketball court 44 feet by 94 feet, the length of an NBA floor, with a gym, a pool, and a hot tub beside it, and a bar with chambers built for chilled champagne and wine. The ground floor had a two-storey great room, a library, a piano room, an awards room, and a security suite, and the plans also named a space for a jersey museum. Upstairs, the owner's suite had a steam shower and two dressing rooms, and a hot tub went on the roof. About 30 of the trees were to come out.

The house needed four exceptions to fit. The driveway was to be 34 metres wide where the rule allowed nine, close to four times the limit. The height was to be 17 metres against a limit of 11, which is about 56 feet where the rule stops near 36. On May 26, 2016, the panel approved it unanimously.

The Embassy, finished

It took four more years for the public to see inside. Architectural Digest put Drake on the cover of its May 2020 issue, standing in the house, with Jason Schmidt's photographs running through it. Rafauli had designed both the building and the rooms, and he described it to the magazine as a nineteenth-century limestone mansion in form and materials, given a contemporary turn on the Beaux Arts style that dressed French and American public buildings a century ago. Drake told AD he wanted it to feel “timeless and strong.”

By AD's account the project had been his since he was 27. The great room rises 44 feet under a Lobmeyr chandelier of more than 20,000 hand-cut Swarovski crystals, the second-largest installation of its kind. The canary-yellow lounge off it had already been on screen by then, in the video for “Toosie Slide,” released that April, and it came back in “When to Say When” and “Chicago Freestyle.”

Drake said it plainly to AD: he will “forever remain solid in the place I was born.”

The night the sky flooded the house

A storm on July 16, 2024 dropped nearly four inches of rain on the city in about three hours and broke a rainfall record that had stood since 1941. Drake posted a video to his Instagram stories that night of at least one floor under brown water, himself walking through it barefoot with a broom, and captioned it “This better be Espresso Martini.”

The Beverly Hills estate he keeps trying to sell

Drake's second house sits high above Benedict Canyon, among oaks and olive trees, in the pocket locals call Beverly Hills Post Office. The name comes from the mail: the area carries a Beverly Hills ZIP code, but the Los Angeles County assessor's roll places it inside the city of Los Angeles. The Tuscan-style house was finished in 2001 for Armand Marciano, a co-founder of Guess, to plans by KAA Design Group, and the rooms were done in an Old World Mediterranean style.

Robbie Williams bought it in 2015 and had the interiors taken contemporary. His wife, Ayda Field, showed the house often on her Instagram over their seven years there. The couple sold it to Drake in the spring of 2022, and he took title through an entity called 11Kip, LLC. At the time, The Real Deal ranked it the second most expensive home sale in Los Angeles that year, behind the Bel Air house called The One.

He had it on the market by May 2023, asking $88M, a year after buying it. It went back up in May 2024 at the same price, the same month Storeys noted that the estate's online map label had been changed to “Kendrick's Dog” during his public feud with Kendrick Lamar. In January 2025 it went up for rent at $250K a month. In May 2026 Yahoo Finance reported it still unsold and asking $79M on Zillow, and the county's current roll still shows his 2022 purchase as the last change in ownership.

The YOLO Estate, 2012 to 2022

Before either of those, Drake's California base was in a gated equestrian city northwest of Los Angeles. He told Rolling Stone in 2014 that a photo of it had been his computer's desktop image years before he could afford it, found by searching for the craziest residential pools in the world, and that he first went looking at it, still unsigned, in 2007.

County records date the original house to 1974, on a lot of about three acres flagged for horses. Larry Pollack, the founder of the Saddle Ranch Chop House chain, owned it before Drake, and Drake bought it in 2012 and named it the YOLO Estate. Behind the waterfall in the pool sat a grotto with a wet bar, iron torches, and two stone elk above it, and the grounds ran to a mechanical bull and stables for horses he did not own. The entry sign that spelled out the estate's name was stolen three times, and he told Rolling Stone he liked the idea of some kid keeping it at home.

He kept buying next door, in 2015 and again in 2018, until the compound was three houses on 6.5 acres. His decade there ended in 2022. Matthew Stafford, the Rams quarterback, bought the two smaller houses that April, and the main house went to a buyer the press did not name that June. Read more on the YOLO Estate profile.

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