With the titleowner console command, I can transfer ownership of land by transferring titles. However, I don't see any titles for trade posts, so I can't use this method to transfer ownership of a trade post. Is there any other way to change the owner of an existing trade post?

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I don't think you can do so with any console command. Trade posts are not actually a "title" - they're a property of the province that gets set to the current owner. You'll need to edit the save game (make sure the checkbox for compression is disabled) by opening it in a text editor.

Figure out the province number (refer to the files \history\provinces\*.txt)
OR
Figure out the top level holding name (b_whatever)

For example, Venice is 356 and b_venezia

Search for that and look for the section that looks like this:

356=
{ name="Venezia" culture=italian religion=catholic b_venezia= { <holding data> } <more holdings> tradepost= { type=trade_post date="1.1.1" build_time="1.1.1" owner=32128 <more data> } <more data>
}

You would then edit the owner to someone else.