Two houses ONE property, SUBDIVIDING QUESTION

[Jeff Wells]

We have a property we are looking into. It is zoned R1, but has 2 good size houses on it on about 1 acre. Emailed the agent about buying and splitting them up but she says she had a buyer check and says it CAN NOT BE SUBDIVIDED.

There's gotta be a way. Surely it can't just be that definitively NO, could it?

My questions are:

What reasons would it NOT be allowed to be subdivided? There is no good reason I see for it to be not allowed. It would look very normal.

Is there a way around this? Petitioning etc?

Has anyone done this?

I will be consulting an attorney to see. Because it would be a big score if we could. But you guys are a plethora of knowledge so I thought I'd run it by you tonight. Thanks BPers