BLUE SKY COUNTRYREAL ESTATE
BLUE SKY COUNTRYREAL ESTATE
Blue Sky Country Real Estate
I’m Robert Phipps — third generation of my family in Texas real estate, at it since 1994, and the last twenty years of that selling land in this county. In this record, which begins in 2006: 361 closings, 17,689 acres, better than $72 million, and almost all of it within an hour of where I’m sitting.
Would you rather see one job than a total? Here is a listing start to finish — what it was, what it took, and what it closed for.
No call center and no hand-off. You call (903) 695-2978 and you get me — the same person who lists it, shows it and negotiates it.
I didn’t start here. My mother was a commercial broker in Dallas and I worked under her brokerage first, then ran the Navarro County office of a Waxahachie firm, and I’ve been on my own in Blooming Grove ever since. The land in this county is the part that never changed.
What 361 closings buy you
By this point the value isn’t the listing. It’s knowing what will go wrong before it does — and most land deals don’t fall apart on price.
What qualifies, what the appraisal district wants to see, and what a change of ownership does to it.
Owned, leased, severed or unknown — and whether the driveway is a deeded access or a long habit.
What is already recorded against a tract, and what a new set has to say when land is being divided so it doesn’t fight the next owner. Dividing land.
Which utility serves a section, and which surveyor and title company get it right the first time.
A member of the National Association of REALTORS®.
One client, two closings
The largest closing on my record started as one of the smallest.
One of the first houses I ever sold — maybe the very first — was the house a high-school friend grew up in, in Dallas. His mother’s place. We worked in some of the same restaurants later on.
Years later she called again, this time about sixty acres of commercial land the family had bought twenty-five years before. Same family, same phone number — and by then I had something to bring to it that I didn’t have the first time.
That’s the whole business, right there.
Before the license
I used to joke that I wasn’t born here, but I got here as quick as I could.
I started at the bottom of the restaurant business — washing dishes and bussing tables — and I finished it at the top, running the food and beverage side of a resort restaurant, beach bar and marina in the British Virgin Islands. A print shop, a recording studio and the West End MarketPlace in downtown Dallas came in between.
The lesson was the same at both ends, and I learned it at the sink: what you earn is a direct result of how you perform and how you treat the person in front of you. It has carried into every job I have had since, and it’s exactly what selling land is.
The West End job is the one that reads closest to what I do now. I had 40,000 square feet nobody could fill. I turned a $25,000-a-year room rental into a $250,000-a-year private-party business, and talked the CEO and the executive committee into putting $150,000 into a build-out that paid for itself inside the first year. Making difficult ground pay, before I ever had a license.
Cindie and I both grew up in Dallas. We tried Waxahachie first. Then we sold that house and bought a place a mile down the road from family land out here, and put the kids in school in Blooming Grove — because we wanted them to have the kind of childhood we’d had, and Dallas had stopped offering it.
That was twenty years ago. We never left.
In their words
“Robert had the task of selling 10 farms for me. He was recommended to me by my lawyer… He called me about every offer. We worked together to get the best price possible for each contract.”
Barbara Irvin, ten farms sold 2016–2018 · Zillow
“He helped me sell my mom’s house for her. He arranged everything; I didn’t have to miss work and he even had a notary come to her to sign paperwork.”
Dana Kindrick · Google, 2026
The office is at 205 S. Fordyce in Blooming Grove. Text me before you drive out — the truck is usually somewhere on a piece of land, and I’d rather meet you on yours anyway.
The survey, the appraisal-district notice, a couple of photos. Whatever is in hand. Email reaches me fastest, and I answer it myself. If you call and get voicemail, leave a message and I’ll call you back.
Call (903) 695-2978 · robert@blueskycountry.com
205 S Fordyce, Blooming Grove, Texas 76626 · by appointment. Robert Phipps, Broker · TREC #0460512.