Can my estate agent charge a termination fee?

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I signed a contract with my estate agent in December to sell my flat. After 6 months, I've had literally a handful of viewings and no offers. On asking to remove it from the market, he is now charging me £360. It does say this on the contract but, surely, after so long without any offers, this is totally unreasonable?

Interested to know what is viewed as a proceedable offer? Can an estate agent basically force you to accept an offer if it is near asking price?

That's why I was specific in my post that the offer had to be proceedable, within 2% of asking price. If the EA chooses to overvalued the house, I should imagine no such offer will be received. Proceedable meaning finances in place and not dependent on an offer still to be received for a house whose sale is necessary to proceed with the purchase.