June 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is renting his home in Westchester County, New York, for $7,500 a month after failing to find a buyer, according to data on the Westchester-Putnam Multiple Listing Service Inc.

Geithner, 47, was trying to sell the brick and stucco Tudor-style home, the listing shows. The house on Maple Hill Drive has five bedrooms, about 3,600 square feet, and an eat-in kitchen with Siematic cabinetry and black granite countertops.

“Careful attention has been paid to the design of every feature of this sophisticated home,” according to the listing.

The home was marketed in February for $1.635 million, according to Scott Stiefvater, president of Stiefvater Real Estate in Pelham, New York. The price was reduced to $1.575 million in May, he said.

The inventory of similar homes for sale in the area may have affected the property’s prospects, said Debbie Meiliken, a broker at Keller Williams Realty New York.

“There was a lot of competition,” Meiliken said. “Sometimes people will put the house for rent if they’re not prepared to sell it and take a loss.”

Home sales in Westchester County fell 41 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to an April 27 statement from the Westchester-Putnam Multiple Listing Service. The county’s median home price fell 14.5 percent to $532,000, the organization said.

Financial Job Losses

The housing market in Westchester County, which lies north of Manhattan, has been hurt by job losses in the banking and investing businesses in New York.

Geithner, who became Treasury secretary this year, is working with the rest of the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve to stem a flood of U.S. home foreclosures that have fueled a drop in prices nationwide.

Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams declined to comment on Geithner’s personal home.

A message left with Barbara Barber, a broker with Weichert Realtors whose name appeared on the listing, was not immediately returned.

The house has a Larchmont postal address and sits in the city of Mamaroneck.

The Associated Press earlier reported on the rental.

To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Louis in Chicago at blouis1@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: June 3, 2009 18:20 EDT