McClain’s Ultimate Attic, a longtime Honolulu business specializing in live auctions and business liquidations, is packing up and headed to storage until it can find a new location.

Wendy McClain, whose late husband, Marty McClain, founded the auction house in 1980, is hoping the situation is temporary. The business held its last estate auction Saturday at its current site on South Beretania Street across from Honolulu Police Department headquarters.

The monthly events attracted antique hunters, collectors and others interested in Hawaiiana, Asian treasures, vintage furniture, art, jewelry, curios and oddities.

McClain said the company will continue to run liquidation sales and on-site auctions, including one next month of unclaimed items in storage at Aloha International Moving Service in Kapolei and in April at M. Dyer &Sons in Pearl City. The Kapolei sale will begin at 10 a.m. March 16 at 91-178 Malakole St., with inspections from 8 to 9 a.m. Details of the Pearl City auction have not been announced.

The auction house has moved a number of times over the years to various addresses downtown and in Kakaako, and has been at the South Beretania site for four years. McClain said the landlord leased the property to another party, which plans to eventually purchase the location.

After last weekend’s sale, unsold items on consignment were returned to their owners, and everything else was being packed up for storage. McClain, who runs the business with daughter Nicole, said she is hoping to reopen in a new location somewhere in Honolulu’s urban core. And if not, the auction house might have to close for good.

“So far we haven’t had any luck finding a new place,” she said. “We need a large space and the rents are outrageous. We’re hoping to continue our family business.”

In the meantime McClain’s is not accepting items for estate auctions, although customers can check for updates closer to the end of March by calling 782-9922.