Scoundrel on the up owns holiday homes (6)
I believe the answer is:
dachas
'holiday homes' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'scoundrel on the up owns' is the wordplay.
'scoundrel' becomes 'cad' (cad is a kind of scoundrel).
'on the up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in a down clue, letters go up).
'owns' becomes 'has' ('have' can be a synonym of 'own').
'cad' backwards is 'dac'.
'dac'+'has'='DACHAS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for dachas that I've seen is " Russian country cottages used as summer houses".)