Trade Days Title is a TDI-licensed title agency serving Van Zandt County and the surrounding East Texas communities, including Canton, Wills Point, Edgewood, Grand Saline, Van, Ben Wheeler, Fruitvale, and Martins Mill. We handle the full range of title and closing services — from straightforward residential transactions to the kinds of complicated rural land, mineral, and estate matters that other title companies prefer to pass on.
Standard Title and Closing Services
We provide everything you'd expect from a Texas title agency: title commitments, title examination, escrow services, document preparation, lien research, title curative work, and closing coordination for residential and commercial real estate. Whether you're a buyer, seller, lender, or realtor, we work with you directly to keep your transaction moving and to close on schedule.
Rural Land, Farm, and Ranch Transactions
A significant share of Van Zandt County real estate involves rural acreage, family farms, hunting tracts, and timber land. These transactions come with their own set of title questions — ag-exempt and 1-d-1 open-space valuation transfers, rollback tax exposure under Texas Tax Code §23.55, easements and rights-of-way, fence-line and boundary questions, and partition or co-tenancy issues among family members. Our team is experienced with rural land work and knows how to identify and address these issues before they slow down a closing.
Mineral, Oil, and Gas Title Research
In East Texas, surface ownership and mineral ownership are often two completely different things. A property's mineral estate may have been severed, leased, partially conveyed, or reserved at various points across decades of ownership. We provide mineral title research that traces what's actually been conveyed and what's been reserved — including severed mineral estates, active and expired oil and gas leases, royalty and overriding royalty interests, non-participating royalty interests, and held-by-production status. If you're buying property and want to know what mineral rights transfer with the surface, selling and need to clarify what you can convey, or settling an estate where minerals have been in the family for generations, we can dig into the records and tell you what's there.
Subdivision Title Work
Creating a subdivision in Texas — even a small one — involves more than dividing a tract into lots. The title work needs to start early and be handled correctly to avoid problems that haunt the property for decades. We work with landowners and developers on title research for the parent tract, curative work to clear up issues before lots are sold, coordination with surveyors on plats and metes-and-bounds descriptions, easement and restrictive covenant questions, and title commitments and closings for individual lots as they sell. If you're considering subdividing rural land in Van Zandt County, we're glad to talk through what your specific property would need.
Probate and Estate Sales
When property passes through an estate, the title work is rarely simple. We regularly handle closings under full probate, muniment of title situations, heirship affidavits, and the curative work that goes along with all of them. We coordinate with attorneys, executors, personal representatives, and family members — including out-of-state heirs and multi-heir transactions — to find the cleanest path from estate to closing. Estate transactions move at their own pace, and they require a title agency that understands both the legal framework and the human side of working with families during a difficult time.
Boundary, Easement, and Curative Work
Old surveys, undocumented easements, fence lines that don't match the deed, missing releases on long-paid liens, gaps in the chain of title from estates that were never finalized — these are the issues that turn a simple closing into a multi-week problem. They're also the issues we love to work on. Solving complex title problems is a real specialty of our office, and we don't bounce difficult files back to the realtor or client. We work them.
Local Knowledge Matters
Van Zandt County's records are at the courthouse in Canton. Knowing the clerks, the indexing patterns, and the historical land ownership in this area isn't something a national title operation can replicate. When a chain-of-title issue surfaces — an old reservation, a missing release, a gap in heirship — having an examiner who actually knows Van Zandt County saves days or weeks on your closing.
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