In 2006 I was house hunting. Found a single house on 60 acres. A developer had bought it. I wanted to buy the single house on 10 acres. He was making the other 5 parcels into 10 acres each too.
His proposal was for 6 homes in the development, all under a HOA.
So I could not buy the existing 20 year old home, without HOA restrictions.
No deal.
That is not an unusual scenario.