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Matthew Stafford came to Los Angeles and did what each recently rich, Super Bowl-winning backmost astir apt should: helium bought houses, and not conscionable any, but Drake's houses. Now, 4 years later, he's selling them.
And mathematics isn't precisely a flex.
Matthew Stafford sells Drake's Hidden Hills homes aft 2 years connected the marketplace — the numbers aren't pretty
The Rams QB conscionable offloaded 3 Hidden Hills properties successful 2 days, closing connected June 3 and 4 for a combined $21 million. Two of those were the celebrated Drake houses - a brace of 1950s ranch-style homes helium snapped up successful April 2022, caller disconnected the Super Bowl LVI win, for $11 cardinal total.
After 2 years of trying to merchantability them, 2 relist attempts, and aggregate terms adjustments, helium yet recovered buyers.
His nett connected the Drake duo: $600,000. On a $11 cardinal investment. Over 4 years. In Los Angeles, existent estate.The 3rd property, an eight-bedroom, 10-bathroom mansion connected 1.5 acres that helium bought for $10.5 million, really sold astatine a loss, going for $9.7 million. So, betwixt the 3 sales, Stafford fundamentally broke adjacent connected $21.5 cardinal successful existent property portion the remainder of Hidden Hills appreciated astir him.
When the Drake woody made sense
Back successful 2022, this each made cleanable consciousness connected paper. Stafford had conscionable thrown the game-winning touchdown to Cooper Kupp successful the Super Bowl, signed a four-year $160 cardinal hold weeks later, and was the hottest backmost successful football.
Buying Drake's Hidden Hills compound, which the rapper had listed arsenic portion of his celebrated "YOLO Estate," felt precise overmuch successful the tone of the moment. Stafford reportedly paid $3.6 cardinal implicit the asking terms for the pair. The plan, reportedly, was to usage them to location Rams teammates and coaches relocating to LA.That was the peak. It's been downhill for the Drake houses ever since.He archetypal listed them successful 2024, asking implicit $12 cardinal for the pair.
No takers. He relisted successful May 2025 with the combined inquire bumped to $13.5 million. Still sitting. Eventually, the prices came down, buyers appeared, and Stafford walked distant with conscionable capable nett to consciousness good astir it.
Stafford isn't leaving LA. He inactive owns his superior residence, a $28 cardinal recently built farmhouse successful Hidden Hills, positive an adjacent winery property adjacent door. What he's doing is consolidating. Shedding the excess properties helium accumulated during the precocious of his Rams era, trimming down to his existent location close earlier what looks similar his last NFL season. He conscionable signed a one-year $55 cardinal deal, the benignant of declaration you motion erstwhile you're not readying for 5 much years successful the league.The Drake houses were a 2022 purchase. The LA dream, the Super Bowl money, the YOLO Estate energy. He's a 38-year-old MVP connected a one-year woody now. The ranch houses had to go.
