Darla Chapman Ripley

Darla Chapman Ripley knows Dallas. She grew up here, was educated in Texas, has an undergraduate degree at The University of Texas-Austin, an MBA at UTD, and deep roots that connect to the state’s illustrious beginnings.

Her acute passion for real estate is as natural as her connection to the Lone Star landscape her family helped build over generations. There is still a street that winds through historic Fair Park that bears her maternal side’s family name, as does one of the first elementary schools in Dallas. Nowadays, Darla’s specialties include the luxury neighborhoods around where she was raised, such as Highland Park, University Park, Greenway Parks, Preston Hollow, Bluff view, Devonshire, and Turtle-Creek/Uptown. Compass Ranch and Land Division is set to launch in January 2022. While she is a member of the new division because of her deep equine connections and success in the genre, Darla is focused on both an “urban and rural reach,” as she phrases it.

Darla depends on her listening skills, honed over decades of networking and marketing in the equine, publishing, real estate, and financial services industries. “She has always enjoyed connecting with people, however. it is her career in real estate that she gets to exercise that skill the most. Real estate allows me to team up with each client on a journey that we design together to meet their specific desires, needs, and goals,” she says.

“Along with her dedication to transparency and honesty, she thoroughly enjoys collaborative environments, which, coincidentally, is the bedrock of the Compass culture.” Darla is a firm believer in the power of marketing, smart, data-driven execution, the commanding presence of the Compass brand, and the technological innovations Compass provides clients.

“The Compass corporate statement says it all: Our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world,” she says. “But it’s my personal mission to implement that for each and every one of her clients.”