Netanyahu's son slashes asking price for Oxford flat after it fails to sell
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's youngest son has slashed the price of his three-bedroom flat in the UK city of Oxford, nine months after putting it on the market, Israeli media reported.
Avner Netanyahu purchased the fancy property for £502,500 in a wealthy part of Oxford in 2022 when he changed his surname to Segal (his grandmother's maiden name), later claiming this was because there are Muslims in Britain and he thought they would stab him if they knew he was related to the premier.
According to reports, in February he put it on the market for a hefty £620,000, but, for reasons that are unknown, has been unable to sell it.
The Calcalist, an Israeli business and economics newspaper, reported on Wednesday that Segal had now reduced the asking price by almost 20 percent to £500,000, which would net him a loss of £2,500.
When the Calcalist first revealed Segal's property purchase in June, Israel's military censor ordered editors to remove the story from the internet within hours.
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These orders in Israel are usually reserved for content thought to be a national security threat.
Segal told the Calcalist: "I didn't have security at the time, and I knew that if I walked around with that name [Netanyahu] in another country with Muslims, I'd get stabbed by the first person who heard it at a train station."
He insisted that all his conduct has been legal.
Netanyahu's son made the purchase in October 2022, shortly after a proposed mini-budget set out by then-British Prime Minister Liz Truss sent the pound plummeting.
He is believed to have lived in the flat during his first year of doing a master's degree, but then moved back to Israel after the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.
According to the newspaper, he paid exactly 1.98 million shekels for the apartment, slightly below the foreign asset reporting threshold of two million shekels.
He made the purchase without having to take out a mortgage. As of 2025, his father, Benjamin Netanyahu, earns an annual salary of at least $150,000.
The Israeli leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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