Crunch the numbers on high-rise projects popping up across the booming Gold Coast and it’s a wonder the city’s developers are not complaining of chronic sore necks.

It’s not so much the constant craning of their heads to survey their towering creations that would be the cause, but rather the portentous reflex of repeatedly looking over their shoulders.

Given the notoriously volatile reputation of the Gold Coast’s property cycles, who could blame them.