Trade Days Title
Trade Days Title is a TDI-licensed title agency rooted in East Texas, with records and relationships running through the courthouse on the Canton square and out across the back roads of Wills Point, Edgewood, Grand Saline, Van, Ben Wheeler, Fruitvale, and Martins Mill. We close the full range of transactions — from straightforward residential closings on a starter home off Highway 64 to the kind of tangled rural land, mineral, and estate files that other title companies are quick to pass on.
If your closing is a Callender Lake weekend cabin, a hunting tract outside Van, an estate parcel that's been in the same family since the East Texas oil boom, or a Ben Wheeler bungalow a block off FM 279 — we know the territory.Standard title and closing services
Everything you'd expect from a Texas title agency: title commitments, title examination, escrow, document preparation, lien research, 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. And if your buyer's running late because they got caught in First Monday traffic on Trade Days weekend — we get it.Rural land, farm, and ranch transactions
A serious share of Van Zandt County real estate is rural — family farms outside Edgewood, hunting tracts near Martins Mill, timber land toward Fruitvale, ag-valued acreage all through the county. These transactions carry their own set of title questions: 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 disputes, and partition or co-tenancy issues among family members. We've worked enough of these files to spot the problems before they slow a closing down.Mineral, oil, and gas title research
In East Texas, surface ownership and mineral ownership are usually two completely different stories. A property's mineral estate may have been severed, leased, partially conveyed, or reserved across decades of deeds — sometimes back to a great-grandparent who never imagined natural gas would matter. We provide mineral title research that traces what's actually been conveyed and what's been reserved: 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 the minerals have been in the family for generations, we'll dig into the records and tell you what's there.Subdivision title work
Creating a subdivision in Van Zandt County — whether it's a small family-land split off Old Highway 80 or a larger development outside Wills Point — involves more than dividing a tract into lots. The title work has 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 ever go on the market, coordination with surveyors on plats and metes-and-bounds, easement and restrictive covenant questions, and title commitments and closings for the 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 comes with all of them. We coordinate with attorneys, executors, personal representatives, and family — 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 need a title agency that understands both the legal framework and the human side of working with families during a hard season.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 properly closed. These are the issues that turn what should be a 30-day closing into a multi-week problem.
They're also the issues we love to work on. Solving complicated title problems is a real specialty of our office, and we don't bounce difficult files back to the realtor or the client. We work them.Local knowledge matters
Van Zandt County's records are at the courthouse on the Canton square — across from the shops and boutiques that come alive on First Monday weekends, around the corner from the Saturday Farmer's Market that runs April through October. Knowing the clerks, the indexing patterns, and the historical ownership patterns in this county isn't something a national title operation can replicate. When a chain-of-title issue surfaces — an old reservation tucked into a 1940s deed, a missing release, a gap in heirship from an estate nobody ever closed out — having an examiner who actually knows Van Zandt County saves days or weeks on your closing.
That's the part you can't outsource. And it's the part we do best.
