What alias does Count Dracula use when buying property in London?

The alias Count Dracula uses when buying property in London is Count De Ville.

In Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula plans to establish several safe havens in and around London. Jonathan Harker helps arrange the original purchase of Carfax, but later investigation reveals that Dracula acquired additional properties under the name Count De Ville, including a house in Piccadilly.

The alias helps conceal the connection between the properties and the mysterious foreign nobleman. Once the vampire hunters compare estate records, transport details, and the locations of Dracula’s earth-filled boxes, they realize that the purchases form part of a larger plan rather than isolated real-estate transactions.

Readers sometimes confuse this name with Count Orlok, the renamed vampire of the 1922 film Nosferatu, or with Lord Ruthven, a character from earlier vampire fiction. “De Ville” belongs specifically to Stoker’s Dracula and is used in the London property trail. Dracula’s strategy depends on distributing fifty boxes of Transylvanian earth among his urban lairs.