San Francisco and Tampa, Fla., sit at opposite corners of the country and at opposite ends of the housing recovery.

As home prices are picking up nationally, the San Francisco Bay Area has shown improvement for seven consecutive months and posted the strongest gains in home prices in October out of 20 metropolitan regions, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index, a closely watched national measure of home prices, which was released Tuesday.

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